This article reviews the causal implications of latent variable and psychometric network
models for the validation of personality trait questionnaires. These models imply different …

The protean/boundaryless career concepts refer to people becoming more self-directed and
flexible in managing their careers in response to societal shifts in work arrangements. A …

Cognitive ability and personality are fundamental domains of human psychology. Despite a
century of vast research, most ability–personality relations remain unestablished. Using …

Openness/intellect is an empirically derived dimension of personality that reflects individual
differences in the ability and tendency to seek, detect, comprehend, utilize, and appreciate …

We examined emotional stability, ambition (an aspect of extraversion), and openness as
predictors of adaptive performance at work, based on the evolutionary relevance of these …

The question of what changes when women enter upper-echelons teams has long frustrated
upper echelons and gender researchers. We build on the dynamic strategic renewal …

The Five Factor Model, which measures individual differences on extraversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience, is …

Openness to Experience is a complex trait, the taxonomic structure of which has been widely
debated. Previous research has provided greater clarity of its lower order structure by …

The study of trait curiosity—individual differences in curious thoughts, feelings, and actions—
sorts into two approaches. One looks downward by unpacking and differentiating trait …

We advance the trait approach to leadership by leveraging a large multinational database
on leader emergence (k= 120 samples, N= 32,579) and leader effectiveness (k= 116, N …