Personality traits have been hypothesized to be clinically useful for diagnosis, client
conceptualization, treatment planning, as well as for predicting treatment outcomes …

Openness to Experience is one of the 5 broad factors that subsume most personality traits.
Openness is usually considered an intrapsychic dimension, defined in terms of …

The B ig F ive personality dimension O penness/I ntellect is the trait most closely associated
with creativity and creative achievement. Little is known, however, regarding the discriminant …

Factor analyses of 75 facet scales from 2 major Big Five inventories, in the Eugene-
Springfield community sample (N= 481), produced a 2-factor solution for the 15 facets in …

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 …

The neuromodulator dopamine is centrally involved in reward, approach behavior,
exploration, and various aspects of cognition. Variations in dopaminergic function are …

Studies indicate that there is a positive relationship between openness to experience and
creativity. However, relatively little attention has been given to the mechanism of this …

To what extent and which personality traits predict academic performance was investigated
in two longitudinal studies of two British university samples. Academic performance was …

An instrument designed to separate 2 midlevel traits within each of the Big Five (the Big Five
Aspect Scales [BFAS]) was used to clarify the relation of personality to cognitive ability. The …

The ability to automatically and implicitly detect complex and noisy regularities in the
environment is a fundamental aspect of human cognition. Despite considerable interest in …