A condensed version of a white paper Pierce and Jane wrote about using the Big Five in the workplace was published in the September 1995 edition of T+D, the Association for Talent Development’s trade journal. Their article was the first ever published in a trade journal that referred to the Five-Factor Model. The article, titled “Buddy, Can You Paradigm?” described the psychological community’s shift to focus on five major personality traits, rather than four.
Jane and Pierce publish Big Five article in T+D
