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Participants
The participants were 90 first-year Psychology students studying at the University X (Males = 23, Females = 67; Mean age = 23). The participants took part in the study as part of an assessment task.
Materials
The OCEANIC (Schulze & Roberts, 2006) was employed to measure the Big Five personality traits. Intellectual ability was measured as performance on the short form of the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM; Bors & Stokes, 1998). Academic performance was operationalized as the participants' final grade for the previous semester's Psychology course.
Procedure
The participants were instructed to complete online versions of the OCEANIC and Advanced Progressive Matrices. They were free to perform the tasks wherever they chose but were advised to try to complete the tasks in a quiet, distraction-free environment. The participants were instructed not to collaborate with anyone else on the tasks. There was no time limit placed upon the tasks, but it was stipulated that they had to be completed within a single test session.