“…Consistent with this, efforts to relate NFC to established personality dimensions such as the five factors proposed by Costa and McCrae (1992) have shown that NFC is positively correlated with Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience (Sadowski & Cogburn, 1997;Tuten & Bosniak, 2001;Woo, Harms, & Kuncel, 2007), whereas concerning an association between NFC and cognitive ability, no or only moderate correlations have been observed (Bors, Vigneau, & Lalande, 2006;Cacioppo, Petty, Kao, & Rodriguez, 1986;Day et al, 2007;Tidwell, Sadowski, & Pate, 2000). Integrating these findings with the results outlined above, individuals high in NFC tend to show stronger intrinsically motivated goal-oriented behavior and, at the same time, are more attracted by complexity and novelty, without necessarily having a higher ability to achieve their goals.…”