Decades of studies identify personality traits as prospectively associated with life outcomes.
However, previous investigations of personality characteristic-outcome associations have …

The Big Five personality traits have been linked with a broad range of consequential life
outcomes. The present research systematically tested whether such trait–outcome …

Personality researchers have posited multiple ways in which the relations between
personality traits and life outcomes may be moderated by other traits, but there are well …

Associations between personality traits and life outcomes are usually studied using the Big
Five domains and, occasionally, their facets. But recent research suggests these …

Personality has consequences. Measures of personality have contemporaneous and
predictive relations to a variety of important outcomes. Using the Big Five factors as …

The ability of personality traits to predict important life outcomes has traditionally been
questioned because of the putative small effects of personality. In this article, we compare …

The present study investigated patterns of normative change in personality traits across the
adult life span (19 through 74 years of age). We examined change in extraversion …

It is time to better understand why personality traits predict consequential outcomes, which
calls for a closer look at personality processes. Personality processes are mechanisms that …

Much of personality research attempts to identify causal links between personality traits and
various types of outcomes. I argue that causal interpretations require traits to be seen as …

This study examined the Big Five personality traits as predictors of mortality risk, and
smoking as a mediator of that association. Replication was built into the fabric of our design …