Traditional evolutionary theory invoked natural and sexual selection to explain species-and
sex-typical traits. However, some heritable inter-individual variability in behaviour and …

Taking a developmental perspective, guided by core principles of developmental science
and developmental psychopathology, is necessary to move the fields of personality science …

Personality traits are assumed to change slowly and incrementally. Recent intervention
studies apparently challenge this assumption, showing that personality traits can also …

Meta-analytic evidence shows that most personality traits tend to increase through early
adulthood and middle age but decrease in late adulthood, whereas Emotional Stability …

This research aims to better understand the association of personality traits (PT)—Openness
to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism—with …

Differences in transition experiences might explain individual differences in personality trait
change. In the present six-wave study, we investigated personality trait change during the …

Objective Why personality changes in young adulthood remains a critical theoretical and
empirical question. We studied personality change during the education‐to‐work transition …

Objective Accumulated evidence indicates both stable and malleable parts of inter‐
individual differences in the broad Big Five domains. Less is known, however, about stability …

Objectives How does risk preference change across the life span? We address this question
by conducting a coordinated analysis to obtain the first meta-analytic estimates of adult …

This study examined sojourners' long–term personality trait changes over five years,
extending previous research on immediate sojourn effects. A sample of German students …