In 2023 we published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reporting the findings of our meta-analyses of personality traits and cognitive abilities (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212794120).
To more deeply delve into the findings, provide richer interpretations of the results, and discuss their implications we also published a book in the same year ("Of Anchors & Sails: Personality-ability trait constellations" [https://umnlibraries.manifoldapp.org/projects/of-anchors-and-sails]).
Given the length and density of the book, we also received requests for a distilled version, so we created this primer ("Our Constellations") to highlight our core findings and the theory they helped inductively build.