For some time now, the commentariat — columnists, critics, bloggers — has bashed the American public as “celebrity-starved,” gobbling every sighting and, better yet, smashup of a person “famous for ...

Conscientiousness can fuel success, but in excess, it can lead to perfectionism, rigidity, and burnout. Learn how to loosen the grip without losing your edge ...

Neil James is executive director of the Australia Defence Association. As the independent, non-partisan, national public-interest watchdog organisation for strategic security issues - and as a ...

As I was trying to discern what God wanted me to write about, I walked into my 16-year-old son's bedroom to discover a military calendar hanging on the wall. It highlighted young men and women in ...

On January 16, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled in a landmark decision that the extradition of a conscientious objector to the war in Ukraine is permissible. The question was whether the ...

Earl Martin’s ideas regarding peace and nonviolence can be traced back to the roots of the Anabaptist movement 500 years ago in Europe. Early Anabaptists believed in ideas, radical at the time, such ...

If you've ever taken a psychology class, you probably know the Big Five personality traits. What you might not know — or what you've probably forgotten in the time since you spent a semester falling ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the psychology of millennials at work. This article is more than 10 years old. I walked out into the middle of the street ...

This is the eighth article in a series focusing on the Big Five personality traits and how they relate to the behavioral biases of investors. Over the years, I have followed a debate between the ...

Today is International Conscientious Objectors' day, and the pacifist group Peace Pledge Union are holding their annual ceremony in London to mark the event. PPU has a fascinating and affecting ...

If ever there was a time to unleash your inner Hermione Granger, that time is now. Hermione is a poster child for conscientiousness, a personality trait that involves being responsible, ...