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Paul J Silvia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Looking up at the curious personality: individual differences in curiosity and Openness to Experience
Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2020Co-Authors: Paul J Silvia, Alexander P. ChristensenAbstract:The study of trait curiosity — individual differences in curious thoughts, feelings, and actions — sorts into two approaches. One looks downward by unpacking and differentiating trait curiosity, with an emphasis on curiosity’s facets, kinds, and parts. Another looks upward by locating trait curiosity within the larger structure of global personality traits. This article reviews research that looks upward by locating curiosity within modern models of Openness to Experience. Our review indicates (1) that most — but not all — models of Openness to Experience explicitly include curiosity-related facets, and (2) that they tend to favor curiosity’s academic and intellectual forms. In accordance with recent network-psychometric analyses, we propose that a broader sense of curiosity — captured by intellectual curiosity, intellectual interests, and variety seeking — emerges from a large pool of Openness to Experience inventories, and that these curiosity facets are central to the global trait. The literature that looks upward at curiosity would benefit from connecting to the diverse and expansive literature that looks downward at it, and network science models offer a fruitful strategy for building a hierarchical model of curiosity across these levels of abstraction.
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reopening Openness to Experience a network analysis of four Openness to Experience inventories
Journal of Personality Assessment, 2019Co-Authors: Alexander P. Christensen, Katherine N Cotter, Paul J SilviaAbstract:Openness to Experience is a complex trait, the taxonomic structure of which has been widely debated. Previous research has provided greater clarity of its lower order structure by synthesizing face...
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remotely close associations Openness to Experience and semantic memory structure
European Journal of Personality, 2018Co-Authors: Alexander P. Christensen, Katherine N Cotter, Yoed N Kenett, Roger E Beaty, Paul J SilviaAbstract:Openness to Experience—the enjoyment of novel Experiences, ideas, and unconventional perspectives—has shown several connections to cognition that suggest open people might have different cognitive processes than those low in Openness. People high in Openness are more creative, have broader general knowledge, and show greater cognitive flexibility. The associative structure of semantic memory might be one such cognitive process that people in Openness differ in. In this study, 497 people completed a measure of Openness to Experience and verbal fluency. Three groups of high (n = 115), moderate (n = 121), and low (n = 118) Openness were created to construct semantic networks—graphical models of semantic associations that provide quantifiable representations of how these associations are organized—from their verbal fluency responses. The groups were compared on graph theory measures of their respective semantic networks. The semantic network analysis revealed that as Openness increased, the rigidity of the semantic structure decreased and the interconnectivity increased, suggesting greater flexibility of associations. Semantic structure also became more condensed and had better integration, which facilitates open people’s ability to reach more unique associations. These results were supported by open people coming up with more individual and unique responses, starting with less conventional responses, and having a flatter frequency proportion slope than less open people. In summary, the semantic network structure of people high in Openness to Experience supports the retrieval of remote concepts via short associative pathways, which promotes unique combinations of disparate concepts that are key for creative cognition.
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Openness to Experience and auditory discrimination ability in music: An investment approach
Psychology of Music, 2016Co-Authors: Karen S. Thomas, Paul J Silvia, Roger E Beaty, Emily C. Nusbaum, Donald A. HodgesAbstract:Why do people vary in how well they discriminate musical sounds? The present research explored personality traits as predictors of auditory discrimination ability, a cornerstone of many popular musical aptitude tests. According to investment-theory approaches, personality traits can shape the growth of cognitive abilities by affecting the kinds of activities and Experiences people select. It thus seems likely that Openness to Experience – a broad trait associated with aesthetic and creative interests – would predict variation in auditory abilities because it is associated with greater engagement with music. A sample of 183 young adults completed an auditory discrimination task (the Musical Ear Test), the HEXACO personality inventory, and items measuring past music training. As expected, Openness to Experience significantly predicted auditory ability (β = .28 [.14, .42]). Mediation models indicated that this effect was fully mediated by music training: people high in Openness had significantly more formal ...
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Openness to Experience plasticity and creativity exploring lower order high order and interactive effects
Journal of Research in Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Paul J Silvia, Emily C. Nusbaum, Christopher Berg, Christopher L Martin, Alejandra OconnorAbstract:What are creative people like? Openness to Experience is important to creativity, but little is known about plasticity, the higher-order factor that subsumes Openness. College students (n = 189) completed measures of the Big Five and measures of creative cognition (fluency and quality of divergent thinking), everyday creative behaviors, creative achievement, and self-rated creativity. Latent variable models found broad effects of Openness to Experience and few effects of the other four domains. At the higher-order level, plasticity predicted higher scores on nearly all of the facets of creativity, and stability had several significant effects. For some creativity measures, plasticity and stability had opposing effects. Tests of latent interactions found no significant effects: plasticity and stability predict creatively independently, not jointly.
Kanghyun Shin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the personality bases of socio political attitudes the role of honesty humility and Openness to Experience
Journal of Research in Personality, 2010Co-Authors: Michael C Ashton, Babatunde Ogunfowora, Joshua S Bourdage, Kanghyun ShinAbstract:Abstract We investigated the personality bases of two broad dimensions of socio-political attitudes—Hierarchy (versus Equality) Orientation and Social Conformity (versus Change) Orientation. In a US adult sample and in Canadian and Korean college student samples, we administered the HEXACO Personality Inventory—Revised, and we assessed the socio-political dimensions using the Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) scales and the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS). As predicted, Hierarchy Orientation variables correlated primarily with low Honesty–Humility, whereas Social Conformity Orientation variables correlated primarily with low Openness to Experience. The findings suggest that the major dimensions of socio-political attitudes can be understood in part as expressions of the personality dimensions of Honesty–Humility and Openness to Experience.
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The personality bases of socio-political attitudes: The role of Honesty–Humility and Openness to Experience
Journal of Research in Personality, 2010Co-Authors: Michael C Ashton, Babatunde Ogunfowora, Joshua S Bourdage, Kanghyun ShinAbstract:Abstract We investigated the personality bases of two broad dimensions of socio-political attitudes—Hierarchy (versus Equality) Orientation and Social Conformity (versus Change) Orientation. In a US adult sample and in Canadian and Korean college student samples, we administered the HEXACO Personality Inventory—Revised, and we assessed the socio-political dimensions using the Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) scales and the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS). As predicted, Hierarchy Orientation variables correlated primarily with low Honesty–Humility, whereas Social Conformity Orientation variables correlated primarily with low Openness to Experience. The findings suggest that the major dimensions of socio-political attitudes can be understood in part as expressions of the personality dimensions of Honesty–Humility and Openness to Experience.
Carsten K W De Dreu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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why schema violations are sometimes preferable to schema consistencies the role of interest and Openness to Experience
Journal of Research in Personality, 2017Co-Authors: Malgorzata A Goclowska, Matthijs Baas, Andrew J Elliot, Carsten K W De DreuAbstract:Abstract We investigated the appraisal processes and personality antecedents that regulate people’s attraction to schema-violations - targets and objects that disconfirm schema- and stereotype-based expectancies. In two studies a preference for schema-violations (vs. consistencies) correlated positively with Openness to Experience, and negatively with the need for structure. In the second study, schema-violations were seen as more surprising (by all individuals), decreasing intentions to approach schema-violations, but were also seen as more interesting (by those higher in Openness to Experience), increasing intentions to approach and accept schema-violations. This suggests that two opposing processes - appraisals of surprise and appraisals of interest - regulate reactions to schema-violations, and that these processes are bounded by individual differences in Openness to Experience.
Alejandra Oconnor - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Openness to Experience plasticity and creativity exploring lower order high order and interactive effects
Journal of Research in Personality, 2009Co-Authors: Paul J Silvia, Emily C. Nusbaum, Christopher Berg, Christopher L Martin, Alejandra OconnorAbstract:What are creative people like? Openness to Experience is important to creativity, but little is known about plasticity, the higher-order factor that subsumes Openness. College students (n = 189) completed measures of the Big Five and measures of creative cognition (fluency and quality of divergent thinking), everyday creative behaviors, creative achievement, and self-rated creativity. Latent variable models found broad effects of Openness to Experience and few effects of the other four domains. At the higher-order level, plasticity predicted higher scores on nearly all of the facets of creativity, and stability had several significant effects. For some creativity measures, plasticity and stability had opposing effects. Tests of latent interactions found no significant effects: plasticity and stability predict creatively independently, not jointly.
Michael C Ashton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the personality bases of socio political attitudes the role of honesty humility and Openness to Experience
Journal of Research in Personality, 2010Co-Authors: Michael C Ashton, Babatunde Ogunfowora, Joshua S Bourdage, Kanghyun ShinAbstract:Abstract We investigated the personality bases of two broad dimensions of socio-political attitudes—Hierarchy (versus Equality) Orientation and Social Conformity (versus Change) Orientation. In a US adult sample and in Canadian and Korean college student samples, we administered the HEXACO Personality Inventory—Revised, and we assessed the socio-political dimensions using the Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) scales and the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS). As predicted, Hierarchy Orientation variables correlated primarily with low Honesty–Humility, whereas Social Conformity Orientation variables correlated primarily with low Openness to Experience. The findings suggest that the major dimensions of socio-political attitudes can be understood in part as expressions of the personality dimensions of Honesty–Humility and Openness to Experience.
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The personality bases of socio-political attitudes: The role of Honesty–Humility and Openness to Experience
Journal of Research in Personality, 2010Co-Authors: Michael C Ashton, Babatunde Ogunfowora, Joshua S Bourdage, Kanghyun ShinAbstract:Abstract We investigated the personality bases of two broad dimensions of socio-political attitudes—Hierarchy (versus Equality) Orientation and Social Conformity (versus Change) Orientation. In a US adult sample and in Canadian and Korean college student samples, we administered the HEXACO Personality Inventory—Revised, and we assessed the socio-political dimensions using the Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) scales and the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS). As predicted, Hierarchy Orientation variables correlated primarily with low Honesty–Humility, whereas Social Conformity Orientation variables correlated primarily with low Openness to Experience. The findings suggest that the major dimensions of socio-political attitudes can be understood in part as expressions of the personality dimensions of Honesty–Humility and Openness to Experience.
