For openness, the model predicts that high scorers will
either be socially successful through creative activity or be
socially and culturally marginalized through bizarre beliefs,
and the determinants of which outcome prevails may
depend on overall condition. This is a hypothesis that
certainly merits further investigation (see Nettle & Clegg,
2006). For conscientiousness, the model predicts that highscoring
individuals might perform badly on tasks in which
they have to respond spontaneously to changes in the
affordances of the local environment, because they will be
rigidly attached to previously defined goals. Finally, for
agreeableness, the theory predicts that high scorers will
avoid being victims of interpersonal conflict but may often
emerge as suckers in games such as the public goods game
and the iterated prisoner’s dilemma game, which are well
studied by psychologists and in which the usual equilibrium
is a mixture of cooperation and exploitation.