Why is Conscientiousness negatively correlated with intelligence

By J. Moutafi, Adrian Furnham, L. Paltiel. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The heritability of conscientiousness facets and their relationship to IQ and academic achievement (2006, background): “In more recent studies ( Moutafi, Furnham, & Crump, 2003, 2004 ) a negative association (� 0.16 and � 0.21) between conscientiousness and IQ has been reported, but the source of this association comes from a single NEO-PI facet, Order, and in the case of the Fifteen”
When the going gets tough: Grit predicts costly perseverance (2015, background): “Because of its known associations with lower intelligence test scores (Moutafi et al., 2004), conscientiousness is a prime candidate for future research into how grit interferes with completing tasks where it is beneficial to skip items (e.”
Personality predictors of intelligence: Differences between young and cognitively healthy older adults (2006, background): “Interestingly, Conscientiousness positively predicted Ga and Gsm, which contradicts previous findings that Conscientiousness has a negative relationship with intelligence (Moutafi et al., 2004; Moutafi et al., 2005).”
The Relationship between Psychometric and Self-Estimated Intelligence, Creativity, Personality and Academic Achievement (2005, background): “Moutafi, Furnham, and Palliel (2004) have a compensatory theory of Conscientiousness at university which suggests that comparatively less bright people have to become more conscientious to succeed in a competitive environment.”
Personality and Intelligence: Gender, the Big Five, Self-Estimated and Psychometric Intelligence (2005, background): “Moutafi, Furnham, and Paltiel (2004) however found consistent evidence of a negative correlation between psychometric intelligence and Conscientiousness.”
Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten (2016, background): “The Big Five trait that has most consistently been linked with intelligence is openness (Ackerman and Heggestad 1997; Moutafi et al. 2004).”