How and to what extent does extraversion relate to work relevant variables across the
lifespan? In the most extensive quantitative review to date, we summarize results from 97 …

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

Thirty-one-year-old Robert often feels rest-less. He has problems sitting at a desk for more
than a few minutes, cannot get orga-nized, loses his keys and wallet, and forgets about his …

Today's rapidly changing and volatile markets demand a novel set of skills from
organizations and employees that allows them to agilely adapt to and surmount the ever …

This chapter provides a review of extraversion, defined as a dimension of personality
reflecting individual differences in the tendencies to experience and exhibit positive affect …

Since the first version of this chapter (John, 1990) was completed in the late 1980s, the field
of personality trait research has changed dramatically. At that time, the Big Five personality …

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We
examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life …

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 …

Engaging, informative, and nontechnical, Introduction to Educational Research: A Critical
Thinking Approach, Second Edition was written and organized specifically for students …

Psychologists have always been interested in interest, and so modern research on interest
can be found in nearly every area of the field: Researchers studying emotions, cognition …