Openness to Experience

McCrae, Robert R.; Greenberg, David M.

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“…diet) become established. This is exactly the trend seen in the human personality analogue of neophilia, openness to experience, which increases from early adolescence until some time in the 20s, and then gradually declines [76]. One would also expect maternal influences and early ontogenetic social and individual experience to contribute to setting baseline response levels and speeds of habituation to novelty.…”

Section: (B) Is Neophilia a Cause Of Innovation?mentioning

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Innovativeness as an emergent property: a new alignment of comparative and experimental research on animal innovation

Griffin¹

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 15 to a theme issue 'Innovation in animals and humans: understanding the origins and development of novel and creative behaviour'. Innovation and creativity are key defining features of human societies. As we face the global challenges of the twenty-first century, they are also facets upon which we must become increasingly reliant. But what makes Homo sapiens so innovative and where does our high innovation propensity come from? Comparative research on innovativeness in non-human animals allows us to peer back through evolutionary time and investigate the ecological factors that drove the evolution of innovativeness, whereas experimental research identifies and manipulates underpinning creative processes. In commenting on the present theme issue, I highlight the controversies that have typified this research field and show how a paradigmatic shift in our thinking about innovativeness will contribute to resolving these tensions. In the past decade, innovativeness has been considered by many as a trait, a direct product of cognition, and a direct target of selection. The evidence I review here suggests that innovativeness will be hereon viewed as one component, or even an emergent property of a larger array of traits, which have evolved to deal with environmental variation. I illustrate how research should capitalize on taxonomic diversity to unravel the full range of psychological processes that underpin innovativeness in non-human animals.

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Innovativeness as an emergent property: a new alignment of comparative and experimental research on animal innovation

Griffin¹

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…The Sino-American Person Perception Scale (SAPPS; Yik & Bond, 1993) is a personality instrument based on the Western Five Factor Model (Norman, 1963;McCrae & Costa, 1985 and indigenous Chinese adjective checklists (Lew, 1985;Yang & Bond, 1990). The scale consists of 32 bi-polar adjectives on 7-point scales measuring eight dimensions, namely Emotional Stability, Extraversion, Application, Openness to Experience, Assertiveness,Restraint,Helpfulness,and Intellect (α = .80,.82,.73,.84,.67,.69,.64,and .62,respectively).…”

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Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations.

Chen

Lam

Hui

et al. 2016

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Publisher's copyright statement:c 2016 APA, all rights reserved. This article may not exactly replicate the nal version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. The present research proposed a construct termed global orientation to denote individual differences in the psychological processes of acculturating to the globalizing world. It encompasses multicultural acquisition as a proactive response and ethnic protection as a defensive response to globalization. Ten studies examined the applicability of global orientations among majority and minority groups, including immigrants and sojourners, in multicultural and relatively monocultural contexts, and across Eastern and Western cultures.Multicultural acquisition is positively correlated with both independent and interdependent self-construals, bilingual proficiency and usage, and dual cultural identifications. Multicultural acquisition is promotion-focused, while ethnic protection is prevention-focused and related to acculturative stress. Global orientations affect individuating and modest behavior over and above multicultural ideology, predict overlap with outgroups over and above political orientation, and predict psychological adaptation, sociocultural competence, tolerance, and attitudes toward ethnocultural groups over and above acculturation expectations/strategies.Global orientations also predict English and Chinese oral presentation performance in multilevel analyses and the frequency and pleasantness of intercultural contact in cross-lagged panel models. We discuss how the psychological study of global orientations contributes to theory and research on acculturation, cultural identity, and intergroup relations.Keywords: global orientations, globalization, multiculturalism, acculturation, cultural identity GLOBAL ORIENTATIONS 3 Conceptualizing Psychological Processes in Response to Globalization:Components, Antecedents, and Consequences of Global OrientationsWith the advent of globalization, societies and cultures have become increasingly connected through communication, transportation, and trade. Globalization is a process of promoting world-wide integration and interdependence across national borders, exerting economic, political, sociological, technological, and environmental influences (e.g., Arnett, 2002; Berger & Huntington, 2002;Chiu, Gries, Torelli, & Cheng, 2011;Kashima, 2007). The growth of information technology, the speed of geographic mobility, and the expansion of international corporati...

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“…Openness to experience has been described as the extent to which individuals are proactive, have wide interests, and look for novel experiences, and is based on characteristics such as imagination, openness to feelings, curiosity, flexibility of thought, and readiness to indulge in fantasy (Feist, 1998;McCrae & Costa, 1985). People who rate highly on openness to experience have greater access to a variety of thoughts, perspectives, and ideas, and tend to be willing and able to generate and contemplate new ideas that challenge the status quo (McCrae & Costa, 1997), as they are more imaginative, curious and flexible in their thinking (Madjar, 2008).…”

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“…Highly conscientious individuals may become too inflexible and rigid (Le et al, 2011), or too cautious and risk averse (Mount et al, 2008), thus thwarting creative performance. Thus, we offer the following:H4: Conscientiousness and creativity are curvilinearly related such that the relationship is initially positive, becoming weaker as conscientiousness increasesOpenness to experience has been described as the extent to which individuals are proactive, have wide interests, and look for novel experiences, and is based on characteristics such as imagination, openness to feelings, curiosity, flexibility of thought, and readiness to indulge in fantasy (Feist, 1998;McCrae & Costa, 1985). People who rate highly on openness to experience have greater access to a variety of thoughts, perspectives, and ideas, and tend to be willing and able to generate and contemplate new ideas that challenge the status quo (McCrae & Costa, 1997), as they are more imaginative, curious and flexible in their thinking (Madjar, 2008).…”

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Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

Coelho

Lages

Sousa

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. *Corresponding author AcknowledgmentWe are grateful to Marlene Noronha for her assistance with data collection and the comments of participants of the 2014 AMS World Marketing Congress. Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: Linear and curvilinear effectsPrevious studies have investigated the relationship between the Five Factor model of personality and creativity. As this model has been criticised for providing a limited account of an individual's personality, this study considers additional personality traits that have recently been investigated in the literature as determinants of employee behaviour. Moreover, we also contribute to the existing body of literature by conducting this study in a services setting, for which we predict personality traits will exert differentiated effects on creativity when compared to other settings. Finally, while past research has focused on linear effects, this study examines the existence of nonlinear effects between personality and creativity. The results indicate that personality traits apart from the Five Factor model have an impact on creativity and that the effects of several personality traits on the creativity of frontline service employees differ from those obtained in other settings. Lastly, the findings also show that five of the personality traits have non-linear effects on creativity, and this may be a stimulus for a new stream of research in the human resources literature.Keywords: creativity; personality; service employees; linear and curvilinear effects Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: Linear and curvilinear effects IntroductionCreativity refers to the development of ideas about goods, services, processes, and practices, which are novel and likely to be useful to an organisation (Shalley, Zhou, & Oldham, 2004).Whereas creativity reflects the development of these ideas at the individual level, innovation concerns the organisational implementation of such ideas (Amabile, 1996). Due to the belief that creativity is paramount not only to greater customer experiences and customer satisfaction (e.g. Coelho, Augusto, & Lages, 2011;Daly, Grove, Dorsch, & Fisk, 2009), but also organisational innovation and ultimately performance (Amabile, Barsade, Mueller, & Straw, 2005;Chen, Shih, & Yeh, 2011;Jiang, Wang, & Zhao, 2012;Liu, 2013), employee creativity has been attracting growing research attention (e.g. Probst, Stewart, Gruys, & Tierney, 2007). Creativity ...

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Openness to Experience

Cited by 149 publications

References 59 publications

Innovativeness as an emergent property: a new alignment of comparative and experimental research on animal innovation

Innovativeness as an emergent property: a new alignment of comparative and experimental research on animal innovation

Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations.

Personality and the creativity of frontline service employees: linear and curvilinear effects

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