Out of the shell, into the world: preferences for openness as a substrate of approach motivation and positive affect

Robinson, Michael D.; Irvin, Roberta L.

doi:10.1007/s11031-022-09934-5

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“…In each study, we collected measures other than those that are analyzed in the current paper and such other measures are listed in a file named "Additional Measures by Study," which can be accessed at the indicated OSF web site. In Study 1, some of these data (but not results involving agreeableness) are reported in Robinson and Irvin (2022a), Irvin (2022b), andRobinson et al (2022). In Studies 2 and 3, measures other than those reported were reported in Robinson et al (2022) under the thesis that open preferences can be linked to emotional intelligence.…”

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“…With respect to the open‐closed distinction, Robinson and Irvin (2022a) created a three‐item measure that asked participants to indicate their relative preference for “open” versus “closed” as words and/or spatial concepts. Because the three questions were parallel in nature, the test was a reliable one (see Study 1 Method section).…”

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Open‐hearted: Preferences for openness in the agreeableness domain

Robinson

Lindquist

Irvin

2023

Journal of Personality

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ObjectiveOpen objects encourage interactivity and closed objects discourage it. Repeated experiences with open and closed objects are thought to give rise to spatial concepts that can be used to represent a variety of entities such as societies, others, and the self. The present investigation pursues the idea that preferring that which is open to that which is closed is more compatible with an agreeable mode of interacting with others.MethodThree studies (total N = 901) asked participants whether they preferred “open” or “closed” as spatial concepts. Such preferences were linked to variations in agreeableness, peer perceptions, and daily measures of pro‐social functioning.ResultsOpen‐preferring, relative to closed‐preferring, individuals scored higher in agreeableness (Study 1) and were rated by peers as interpersonally warmer (Study 2). Open preferences varied within and across persons in a daily diary protocol and, in both cases, higher levels of open preference were linked to higher levels of pro‐social feeling (Study 3).ConclusionThe findings point to a fundamental component of spatial orientation that plays a significant role in encouraging (open) or discouraging (closed) warm, interactive relations with others.

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Open‐hearted: Preferences for openness in the agreeableness domain

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Irvin

2023

Journal of Personality

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“…Orbell et al., 2001). There is already some research acknowledging the day‐specific variance of goal importance from daily diary studies (e.g., Harris et al., 2003; Robinson & Irvin, 2022). In addition, goal importance has also been conceptualized as varying with respect to different goals (Steinmann et al., 2018), implying that setting different goals everyday might also result in a daily variation in goal importance.…”

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Healthy and successful: Health‐behavior goal striving in daily work life

2023

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Health behaviors (physical activity and healthy eating) can be an essential part of everyday work life and are relevant for employees' affective states. Many worksite interventions, including goal‐striving approaches, have been developed to promote health behavior at work. However, these approaches often neglect that making progress with respect to health‐behavior goals necessarily takes place during workday episodes, so that work tasks are accomplished simultaneously. In our study, we aim to advance the understanding of how health‐behavior goal progress is facilitated and how reflecting on it evokes affective states—taking into account simultaneous pursuit of work‐task progress. We collected daily diary data from 205 employees on 1399 days. Analyses showed that goal importance positively predicted health‐behavior goal progress, which in turn positively predicted pride and negatively predicted shame at the end of the workday. The negative relation between health‐behavior goal progress and shame was stronger on days with low work‐task progress, implying compensatory effects. Work‐task progress did not moderate the relation between health‐behavior goal progress and pride. We discuss the theoretical and practical relevance of integrating research on multiple goal striving when promoting health behavior in daily work life by means of goal‐striving techniques.

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Feelings as a currency of care: A role for agreeableness in emotional reactivity

Robinson,

Irvin,

Fereidouni

et al. 2024

Journal of Personality

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Objective and BackgroundThe personality trait of agreeableness is linked to a number of core tendencies (e.g., empathy, warmth) that operate in a feeling‐based manner. Following considerations of this type, it is proposed that the motivations and characteristics of agreeable individuals, relative to disagreeable individuals, should render them more receptive to emotional events and more responsive to them for this reason.MethodPotential links between agreeableness and emotional reactivity were assessed in two studies involving four samples (total N = 517) in which participants continuously rated their feeling states in response to a variety of affective images.ResultsAgreeableness did not predict the speed with which emotional reactions began, but agreeable individuals exhibited higher‐magnitude peak intensities, regardless of whether stimuli were appetitive (pleasant) or aversive (unpleasant) in nature.ConclusionsThe findings provide novel insights into the personality trait of agreeableness, emotional reactivity phenomena, and the dynamic processes that link agreeableness to emotion.

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Out of the shell, into the world: preferences for openness as a substrate of approach motivation and positive affect

Cited by 3 publications

References 58 publications

Open‐hearted: Preferences for openness in the agreeableness domain

Open‐hearted: Preferences for openness in the agreeableness domain

Healthy and successful: Health‐behavior goal striving in daily work life

Feelings as a currency of care: A role for agreeableness in emotional reactivity

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