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Conscientiousness is the trait of being painstaking and careful, or the quality of being in accord with the dictates of one's conscience.

Conscientiousness includes traits such as self-discipline, carefulness, thoroughness, orderedness, deliberation (the tendency to think carefully before acting) and need for achievement.

Interaction with other faculties


  • Negative Conscientiousness + Cautiousness: fear for action, anxiety.
  • Negative Conscientiousness + Acquisitiveness: propensity towards theft and fraud.
  • Negative Conscientiousness + Amativeness: inclination towards immoral behaviour.
  • Negative Conscientiousness + Secretiveness: hypocrisy, deceit, dissimulation.
  • Negative Conscientiousness + Destructiveness: propensity towards violent behaviour.

Phrenology

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