The role of intelligence and personality traits in explaining school achievement is crucial. However, their mutual impact on academic success remains unclear due to ambiguous results--the synergistic hypothesis versus the compensatory hypothesis. Additionally, there is a lack of research on representative samples, particularly concerning the…

According to faking models, personality variables and faking are related. Most prominently, people's tendency to try to make an appropriate impression (impression management; IM) and their tendency to adjust the impression they make (self-monitoring; SM) have been suggested to be associated with faking. Nevertheless, empirical findings connecting…