The association between personality and cognitive ability: Going beyond simple effects

Rammstedt, Beatrice; Danner, Daniel; Martin, Silke

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2016.03.005

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“…However, this is not likely to be the case in the present study—7 year olds are not likely to adhere to any socio‐political ideologies. The homophily effect for Openness was also independent of Cognitive ability, an attribute that is correlated with Openness (Ackerman & Heggestad, ; Moutafi et al, ; Rammstedt et al, ). We therefore interpret our results as suggesting that, in the present sample, the common interests associated with Openness, especially in the creative and aesthetic domains (Furnham & Chamorro‐Premuzic, ; Wolfradt & Pretz, ), are likely to be responsible for social assortment based on Openness.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Cognitive ability is correlated with certain personality traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability (Ackerman & Heggestad, ; Moutafi, Furnham, & Crump, ; see also Rammstedt, Danner, & Martin, , for a replication in a population representative sample). Thus, to investigate the occurrence of homophily based uniquely on personality traits or on cognitive ability, these predictor variables were entered not only independently, but also together.…”

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Homophilous Friendship Assortment Based on Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Effect of Peer Network Size

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Even though homophily (love of the same) is often thought of as a standard feature of friendships, the empirical evidence for attraction based on personality trait similarity is mixed at best. One reason for the inconsistent findings across studies could be variation in the large‐scale social environment in which the studies have been conducted. We investigated whether diversity in the everyday social ecologies of 7‐ to 8‐year‐old children (N = 549) moderates whether friendships are formed on the basis of similar personality traits and similar levels of Cognitive ability. Moderated polynomial regression and response surface analyses showed that classroom size moderated homophily based on Openness to Experience: children similar in Openness were more likely to form friendship ties, but only in larger classrooms. Moreover, we found homophily for Cognitive ability, especially among girls. The results for Openness and Cognitive ability were independent of each other. We discuss the social relevance of trait Openness and the notion that capacity to reciprocate underlies homophily based on Cognitive ability. Copyright © 2017 European Association of Personality Psychology

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Homophilous Friendship Assortment Based on Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Effect of Peer Network Size

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“…Oddly, the correlation between self-regulatory traits, like conscientiousness, and intelligence appears to switch directions when examining adult populations, as evidenced by a meta-analysis that indicates conscientious individuals tend to have lower concurrent intelligence scores (Poropat, 2009). It is unclear whether the non-intuitive and discrepant findings are due to: methodological issues (e.g., non-representative adult samples, see Murray, Johnson, McGue, & Iacono, 2014), substantive explanations (i.e., highly conscientious people compensate for lower intellectual abilities, see Rammstedt, Danner & Martin, 2016), or developmental differences (i.e., the association is positive early in development, but negative later in development). Regardless, a concurrent association does not inform our understanding of the prospective influence of intelligence scores on change over time in effortful control.…”

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The development of effortful control from late childhood to young adulthood.

Atherton

Lawson

Robins

2020

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The present study investigated the developmental precursors of effortful control, a temperament trait that involves the propensity to regulate one's impulses and behaviors, to motivate the self towards a goal when there are conflicting desires, and to focus and shift attention easily. Data came from the California Families Project, a multi-method longitudinal study of 674 Mexican-origin youth (and their parents), who were assessed at ages 10, 12, 14, 16, and 19. Effortful control (measured via self-and parent-reports) was moderately stable over time (r=.47 from age 10 to 19), and its developmental trajectory followed a u-shaped pattern (decreasing from age 10 to 14, before increasing from age 14 to 19). Findings from latent growth curve models showed that youth who experience more hostility from their parents, associate more with deviant peers, attend more violent schools, live in more violent neighborhoods, and experience more ethnic discrimination tend to exhibit an exacerbated dip in effortful control. In contrast, youth with parents who closely monitor their behavior and whereabouts exhibited a shallower dip in effortful control. Analyses of the facets of effortful control revealed important disparities in their trajectories; specifically inhibitory control showed linear increases, attention control showed linear decreases, and activation control showed the same u-shaped trajectory as overall effortful control. Moreover, most of the precursors of effortful control replicated for inhibitory control and attention control, but not for activation control. We discuss the broader implications of the findings for adolescent personality development and self-regulation.Word count: 243/250

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“…The proportion of variance in cognitive ability accounted for by personality generally ranges from 5% to 10% (Furnham, Dissou, Sloan, & Chamorro‐Premuzic, ). In regard to the Big Five model of personality, studies consistently have found a positive relationship between cognitive ability and Openness (e.g., Ackerman & Heggested, , Rammstedt, Danner, & Martin, ; Von Stumm & Ackerman, ). Further, a consistent negative relationship has been observed between cognitive ability and both Neuroticism (Ackerman & Heggestad, ; Moutafi, Furnham, & Crump., ; Rammstedt et al, ; Zeidner & Matthews, ) and Conscientiousness (e.g., DeYoung, ; Furnham et al, ; Moutafi et al, ; Rammstedt et al, ).…”

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The relations between cognitive ability and personality: Convergent results across measures

Carretta

Ree

2018

Int J Selection Assessment

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Several studies have investigated the relations between cognitive ability and Big Five personality constructs. The present study extended previous research by (a) examining these relationships in large samples (total N = 120,014), (b) including several measures of cognitive ability and personality, (c) examining both domain and facet‐level personality scores, (d) expanding the personality domains studied to include Machiavellianism, and (e) correcting the observed correlations for range restriction and reliability to provide a better statistical estimate of the relations between the cognitive and personality scores and constructs. Results were consistent with prior research showing a positive relationship between cognitive ability and Openness and negative relationships between cognitive ability and Neuroticism and Conscientiousness. Negative relations between cognitive ability and Extraversion and Agreeableness also were observed. Machiavellianism, not part of the Big Five was found to have a positive correlation with cognitive ability. Of particular interest was the finding that the relations between cognitive ability and personality were affected by the specific content of the cognitive and personality measures. Cognitive measures with verbal content were more strongly correlated with personality than were cognitive measures with math or nonverbal content for all of the samples. Also, there was considerable variability in the cognitive‐personality correlations for the facets underlying each personality domain. The variability in correlations at the facet‐level implies that cognitive‐personality relationships at the domain‐level will vary as a function of the specific content of the cognitive and personality measures. Overall, the results provide support for cognitive‐personality association at the measurement level.

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The association between personality and cognitive ability: Going beyond simple effects

Cited by 94 publications

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Homophilous Friendship Assortment Based on Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Effect of Peer Network Size

Homophilous Friendship Assortment Based on Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Effect of Peer Network Size

The development of effortful control from late childhood to young adulthood.

The relations between cognitive ability and personality: Convergent results across measures

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