How to Use Personality Traits to Predict Life Outcomes

In another article, Danny Adana and his colleagues focus on one of the fundamental questions of personality science. They use sophisticated modeling to explore how much breaking the big five domains into facets can improve researchers' ability to predict life outcomes. Authors found that more curious individuals tended to seek for additional information, even when they did not have to do this. And indeed, some people's personality traits were more consistently rated than the personality traits of other people.