Social consequences of experiential openness.

Abstract

Openness to Experience is one of the 5 broad factors that subsume most personality traits. Openness is usually considered an intrapsychic dimension, defined in terms of characteristics of consciousness. However, different ways of approaching and processing experience lead to different value systems that exercise a profound effect on social interactions. In this article, the author reviews the effects of Openness versus Closedness in cultural innovation, political ideology, social attitudes, marital choice, and interpersonal relations. The construct of Openness and its measures could profitably be incorporated into research conducted by social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and historians.

It takes two to tango: How parents’ and adolescents’ personalities link to the quality of their mutual relationship.

“…This effect may be due to the fact that open individuals like to experiment more with rules and conventions (McCrae, 1996b), which may prompt parents to be more controlling in order to avoid missteps of their children. It should be noted, however, that the positive association between openness and restrictive control was limited to sons (see above).…”

“…High levels of this factor have also been linked to liberal political views and a tendency to defy conventions (McCrae, 1996b), which may invoke higher levels of parental control when present in children. Scattered evidence suggests that openness to experience is associated with higher quality PCR in parents.…”

Inteligencia emocional percibida, disposición al optimismo-pesimismo, satisfacción vital y personalidad de docentes en su formación inicial

“…En cambio, los sujetos extravertidos están predispuestos a experimentar emociones positivas y a tener un afecto positivo (Costa y McCrae, 1994;Larsen y Buss, 2005), suelen tener más amigos, e invierten más tiempo en situaciones sociales, debido a estas habilidades tienen mayor probabilidad de encontrar sus interacciones sociales más reforzantes (Watson y Clark, 1997). La apertura a la experiencia se ha relacionado con la creatividad (Feist, 1998), baja religiosidad y pensamiento divergente (McCrae, 1996). McCrae y Costa (1991) consideran que la dimensión amabilidad podría estar relacionada con la felicidad, lo que les permite percibir mayores niveles de bienestar.…”

Above and Below Left–Right: Ideological Narratives and Moral Foundations

“…Today, the Big Five taxonomy is widely accepted as a valuable high-order model of personality, and there is evidence for a degree of heritability for most traits, including many related to political ideology (Bouchard, 2004;McCrae, 1996). Correlational analyses show that people's ratings on a simple left/right or liberal/conservative scale predict an extraordinary variety of other traits, behaviors, preferences, and interactional styles, most of which are related in some way to the tendency for liberals to score higher on measures of the Big Five dimension of Openness to Experience (Carney, Jost, Gosling, & Kiederhoffer, in press;Jost et al, 2003;McCrae, 1996).…”