A new Italian study reveals that adaptive personality traits like openness and conscientiousness significantly contribute to ...

The longevity secrets centenarians share aren't about diet. Research from Blue Zones and multiple global studies points to ...

Other researchers have found interesting interactions between Conscientiousness and creativity. Laura King and her colleagues found an interaction between creativity and Conscientiousness such that ...

Conscientious children are less likely to smoke in later life and the personality trait could help explain health inequalities, indicates a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community ...

Personality tests are two a penny, and most of them are no more meaningful than astrology (spoken like a true Capricorn). But there are ways to study personality empirically—they just involve ...

According to two psychologists, the field of psychological science has a problem with the concept of self-control. It has named self-control both a "trait"—a key facet of personality involving ...

A recurring theme in Tyler Cowen's writing is that new age we're living in is rewarding people with particular cognitive styles, and that this will become even more true in the future. The usefulness ...

From the mailroom to the corner office, conscientiousness predicts success. "Of all personality traits, conscientiousness has been associated with strong performance and success in almost all areas of ...

In their paper titled "Conscientiousness Is Not Always a Good Predictor of Performance: The Case of Creativity" (published in The International Journal of Creativity & Problem Solving), Roni ...