Artiklen fokuserer på Openness som en grundlæggende personlighedsdimension. Det argumenteres, at Openness ikke blot handler om uddannelse eller intelligens, men skal forstås både strukturelt og motivationsmæssigt. Det indebærer en bred og dyb bevidsthed samt behovet for at udforske erfaringer.
Titel på undersøgelse:
Conceptions and Correlates of Openness to Experience.
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
Review of the empirical literature on Openness as a fundamental dimension of personality, but our major focus is on the conceptualization of Openness / argue that Openness cannot be understood as the culture that is acquired through education or good breeding, nor as intellect or any other cognitive ability / suggest that Openness must be viewed in both structural and motivational terms / Openness is seen in the breadth, depth, and permeability of consciousness, and in the recurrent need to enlarge and examine experience