“…For instance, personality variables that have been suggested in the psychological literature as having an influence on obedience include (a) authoritarianism, with subjects that are more authoritarian exhibiting more obedience (see Elms & Milgram, 1966;Elms, 1972), (b) interpersonal trust, with subjects that are more trusting exhibiting more obedience (see Miller, 1975), (c) level of moral judgment, with subjects with lower levels of moral judgment exhibiting more obedience (see Milgram, 1974;Blass, 1991), (d) social intelligence, with subjects with lower levels of social intelligence exhibiting more obedience (see Burley & McGuinness, 1977), (e) hostility, with subjects that are more hostile exhibiting more obedience (see Haas, 1966), and (f) locus of control (Rotter, 1990), with subjects that are more external than internal exhibiting more obedience (see Holland, 1967;Miller, 1975). Although it has often been complained in the literature that personality traits are not often predictive of behavior, Fleeson and Gallagher (2009) recently performed a meta-analysis of 15 experience-sampling studies conducted over the course of 8 years (ranging over 20,000 reports of trait manifestation in behavior) and found that traits were actually strongly predictive of individual differences in the manifestation of traits in behavior, predicting average levels with correlations between +0.42 and +0.56 (approaching +0.60 for stringently restricted studies; see Table 3 in Fleeson & Gallagher, 2009, p. 1104).…”