The variety of individual differences is immense and different personality traits can provide humans with competitive advantages in different environments. Although there is a lack of informative explanations addressing questions such as, where traits come from, how they operate as well as how they produce differences in behaviour, traits are great describers of individual differences. There has been a growing consensus that individual personality differences can be described by a hierarchical system consisting of several major traits, in particular, the five-factor models have gained distinct prominence. Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and conscientiousness The Big 5 traits have been celebrated for their ability to simplify a plethora of traits, their cross-cultural application as well as their ability to account for a substantial amount of the human behaviour variation. These personality traits serve as categorical distinguishment markers when looking at relationship between them and an array of other measures, including meaning in life and beliefs about free will.
Philosophers and other authorities have questioned the existence of free will for centuries
. Even though some may view such differences in opinion as little, recent work has indicated that these beliefs have practical consequences. For example, Harmon-Jones and Mills (999) established that invoking a sense of personal accountability causes people to modify their behaviour to better align with their attitudes, while the findings of Vohs and Schooler (2008) suggested that students who had been induced not to believe in free will became more likely to cheat on a test and steal money. Mueller and Dweck (998) extended these findings by looking at the performance on tasks of 0-year-old children after they have been told their success was a result of either their intelligence or their hard work. The authors concluded that those children who thought their success was due to their intelligence, put less effort and reported lower enjoyment than children who thought their success was a result of their own effort. In light of the evidence that agents beliefs about free will foresee various important social behaviour patterns, including diminished individual causation and possible promotion of undesirable behaviours, it would be beneficial to understand more about those beliefs.