Personality psychology seeks both to understand how individuals differ from one another in
behavior, motivation, emotion, and cognition and to explain the causes of those differences …

The general conclusion from recent research on the Big Two dimensions of human
personality—Plasticity (extraversion and openness) and Stability (neuroticism …

The five-factor model (FFM) is a widely used taxonomy of human personality; yet its neuro
anatomical basis remains unclear. This is partly because past associations between gray …

Personality is associated with variation in all kinds of mental faculties, including affective,
social, executive, and memory functioning. The intrinsic dynamics of neural networks …

Cybernetics, the study of principles governing goal-directed, self-regulating systems, offers a
useful approach to understanding psychopathology or psychological dysfunction …

The brain's default network (DN) has been a topic of considerable empirical interest. In fMRI
research, DN activity is associated with spontaneous and self‐generated cognition, such as …

Imagination and creative cognition are often associated with the brain's default network
(DN). Recent evidence has also linked cognitive control systems to performance on tasks …

In this chapter we review the history of the openness/intellect construct and summarize the
empirical findings regarding the relation of creativity to the openness/intellect trait domain as …

Openness to experience is characterised by flexible and inclusive cognition. Here we
investigated whether this extends to basic visual perception, such that open people combine …

Beliefs profoundly affect people's lives, but their cognitive and neural pathways are poorly
understood. Although previous research has identified the ventromedial prefrontal cortex …