The impact of openness to experience personality trait on attitudes of medical students toward euthanasia: the moderating role of spiritual intelligence [PDF]
Euthanasia is the most important ethical challenges in the entire field of medicine. Various factors may influence the medical students’ attitudes toward euthanasia, including personal beliefs, values, and personality traits.
Mohsen Khosravi
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Integration of structural brain networks is related to openness to experience: A diffusion MRI study with CSD-based tractography [PDF]
Openness to experience is one of the big five traits of personality which recently has been the subject of several studies in neuroscience due to its importance in understanding various cognitive functions.
Nima Talaei +2 more
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Openness to experience predicts dopamine effects on divergent thinking [PDF]
Individual differences in trait levels of openness to experience and creativity have been theoretically linked to dopamine function. However, empirical evidence for this assumption is scarce, especially for causal connections.
Wiebke Käckenmester +2 more
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Psycho-lexically based Openness to Experience
We investigated whether NEO-PI-R Openness to Experience (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and its six facets could be identified in the natural trait lexicon. To represent the NEO-PI-R Openness, a list of 113 items was selected from a lexically derived trait list ...
Boele De Raad +2 more
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When Figurative Language Goes off the Rails and under the Bus: Fluid Intelligence, Openness to Experience, and the Production of Poor Metaphors [PDF]
The present research examined the varieties of poor metaphors to gain insight into the cognitive processes involved in generating creative ones. Drawing upon data from two published studies as well as a new sample, adults’ open-ended responses to ...
Paul J. Silvia, Roger E. Beaty
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Epigenetic Modification of OXTR is Associated with Openness to Experience [PDF]
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide known to influence social and cognitive processing across several mammalian species. There currently exists a mixed and controversial pattern of evidence that oxytocin pathway genes confer individual differences in social ...
Brian W. Haas +2 more
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Stressful life events and openness to experience: Relevance to depression. [PDF]
Stressful life events are known as risk factors for depression, though there is considerable heterogeneity in how people respond to stress. Previous studies have found an association between experience of stressful life events and the personality trait of openness to experience, which itself has been associated with intelligence, creativity, risk ...
Chiappelli J +5 more
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As one of the five major personality traits, openness to experience has been established as a fundamental factor of personality. Yet its history, and what it constitutes, has not always been clear. This becomes obvious when observing how the label has changed over the decades: from Inquiring Intellect to Intelligence to Culture until finally the ...
Alexander P. Christensen
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Openness to experience and innovative work behavior: workplace politics harms the innovativeness of those low on openness [PDF]
Background Work innovation is essential to both employee and organizational success in today’s highly competitive work environment. Although scholars have found personality (e.g., openness to experience) to relate to innovative work behavior, only some ...
Eleni M. Stergiopoulou, James A. Meurs
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Are Adolescents with Higher Openness More Creative Under Stress? The Mediating Role of Stress Perception and Cognitive Flexibility [PDF]
Stress is a major risk factor for creativity development in adolescents. This study explored the protective effect of openness on creative tendency under stress and revealed the underlying mechanisms from the perspectives of stress perception and ...
Yifan Wang +3 more
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