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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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Associations Between Openness Facets, Prejudice, and Tolerance: A Scoping Review With Meta-Analysis
The personality factor of openness to experience, which encompasses curiosity, imagination, and a desire for new experiences, has been associated negatively with prejudice and positively with the closely related value of tolerance.
D. X. Ng+4 more
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Opening Open Universities: The Canadian Experience [PDF]
This article examines, from an administrative/management perspective, the two open universities which have been created in Canada in the 1970's, Athabasca University in Alberta and the Te´le´-universite´ in Que´bec. A study of the initial planning reveals that effective planning requires balanced attention to means and ends.
W. A. S. Smith, J. S. Daniel
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The role of personality traits in distinguishing virtual social networks users and non-users [PDF]
The purpose of study was to determine the role of personality traits in distinguishing virtual social networks users and non-users. The present research design was a cross - correlation.
Mohammad Mohammadpour+2 more
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Why Do Intelligent People Care More About the Environment?
The present study investigates and provides support for the Savanna-IQ interaction hypothesis regarding pro-environmental values. Study 1 showed that the highest attained education level is a significant predictor of pro-environmental concern, while ...
Mykolas Simas Poškus
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Openness to Experience and Culture-Openness Transactions Across the Lifespan [PDF]
We examined the lifespan development of openness to experience and tested whether change in this personality trait was associated with change in cultural activity, such as attending the opera or visiting museums. Data came from the Dutch Longitudinal Internet Study for the Social Sciences panel, which includes 5 personality assessments across a 7-year ...
Schwaba, Ted+4 more
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This study aims to determine the level of openness to experience and knowledge sharing on learning innovation and teacher resilience affected by the eruption of Mount Semeru in Lumajang Regency, East Java Province.
Yohamintin Yohamintin
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Investigating personal characteristics on e-banking adoption [PDF]
During the past few years, there have been increasing interests on doing banking transactions using online services through internet. In this paper, we present an empirical investigation to study the role of personal and social characteristics on ...
Ali Arfaeian+3 more
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Tourism, meditation, sustainability
The economic value of meditation based services is clearly demonstrated by a growing number of companies using such services. In the USA one quarter of the companies offer in-house meditation training to their employees.
Attila Lengyel
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An eye-opening experience [PDF]
Many aspects of visual development are known to depend on activity. Two recent reports of rapid rewiring of connections in visual cortex and superior colliculus make clear that eye opening is an important event in the maturation of the visual system.
Michael P. Stryker+2 more
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