General intelligence and personality traits from the Five-Factor model were studied as predictors
of academic achievement in a large sample of Estonian schoolchildren from elementary …

In order to generalize the dimensional structure of personality—relatively independent groups
of covarying traits—across languages and cultures, a large number of cultures must be …

The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order
personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and …

Measles, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease are essentially the same disorders everywhere
in the world, because the human immune, endocrine, and nervous systems are species-wide…

[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 96 (1) of Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2008-18683-004). Some of the sample sizes …

The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) was translated into 28 languages and administered
to 16,998 participants across 53 nations. The RSES factor structure was largely invariant …

There is considerable debate about whether the early processing of sounds depends on
whether they form part of speech. Proponents of such speech specificity postulate the existence …

Studies using behavioral methods, such as head-turning experiments, in which children are
conditioned to turn their heads toward the sound source when they detect a change in the …

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment was conducted in a
discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490. Three …

It has long been believed that personality traits vary by geographicallocation, but few
studies have examined the worldwide distribution of personality profiles. Using the five-factor …