Talk:Openness to experience

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Can anyone tell me why this page was deleted?! Jcbutler 21:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, I found the "vote" which was in favor of deletion. I'd like to appeal this because Openness is a key trait in the big five model of personality, which is currently one of the most empirically supported and consensually accepted theories of personality psychology. There is a large research literature on this. There was criticism of how the article was written, but believe me, this is not just "point of view". Jcbutler 22:13, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

If you can create a version of the page that includes those sources at (for example) User:Jcbutler/Openness to experience and take it to deletion review, I expect it will be able to be restored easily. Right now, though, the burden of proof after the deletion discussion is on you to show that this is not just your own POV/original research. Good luck, and let me know if you need the old text to help out or anything. -- nae'blis 19:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Justification for the Undeletion of Openness to Experience

I'm sure the folks that voted to delete the entry for openness to experience had good intentions, but I fear that they may not have had enough expertise in the field of personality psychology to make a fully informed decision on the matter. Apparently the entry was poorly written, but the trait of openness is an important finding from contemporary personality research, and it should be included in Wikipedia. Openness is one of the five fundamental factors of personality, just as hydrogen is a fundamental element in chemistry. Wikipedia has entries on individual elements and should have comparable coverage for the field of psychology. In fact, it does have this level of coverage for other major personality traits, such as extraversion and neuroticism. Openness to experience is conspicuously absent. I would like to have openness "undeleted" and I will personally write a new entry and monitor it so that it meets Wikipedia's standards of quality.

Openness to experience, along with extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism, is one of the Big Five personality traits. This model has received tremendous empirical support in the research literature, and was derived from factor analytic studies conducted by numerous independent investigators over the past few decades. There is close to a consensus among personality trait theorists that these five factors represent most of the statistical variability that is measurable in self-report personality tests. Openness is a component of the NEO PI-R personality test, by Costa and McCrae, as well as other modern personality tests.

As evidence that openness to experience is a valid personality construct and not a mere expression or point of view, I have included a partial list of references for scholarly articles on the topic at the end of this entry. All of the following were published 2000-2006 in peer reviewed, academic journals. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

Selected articles on openness to experience

  • The Curvilinear Relation Between Experienced Creative Time Pressure and Creativity: Moderating Effects of Openness to Experience and Support for Creativity. Markus Baer; Greg R. Oldham; Journal of Applied Psychology; Jul 2006; 91(4); p. 963-970
  • Is Openness to Experience an Independent Personality Dimension? Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Openness Domain and its NEO-PI-R Facets. Luis F. García; Anton Aluja; Óscar García; Lara Cuevas; Journal of Individual Differences; 2005; 26(3); p. 132-138
  • Having an Open Mind: The Impact of Openness to Experience on Interracial Attitudes and Impression Formation. Francis J. Flynn; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; May 2005; 88(5); p. 816-826
  • Why Openness to Experience is not a Good Predictor of Job Performance. Barbara Griffin; Beryl Hesketh; International Journal of Selection and Assessment; Sep 2004; 12(3); p. 243-251
  • Openness to Experience, Non-Conformity, and the Preference for Abstract Art. Gregory J. Feist; Tara R. Brady; Empirical Studies of the Arts; 2004; 22(1); p. 77-89
  • Openness to Experience and Boundaries in the Mind: Relationships with Cultural and Economic Conservative Beliefs. Alain Van Hiel; Ivan Mervielde; Journal of Personality; Aug 2004; 72(4); p. 659-686
  • Creativity and Openness: Further Validation of Two Creative Product Measures. Stephen J. Dollinger; Klaus K. Urban; Troy A. James; Creativity Research Journal; Jan 2004; 16(1); p. 35-47
  • Measured intelligence, achievement, openness to experience, and creativity. Julie Aitken Harris; Personality and Individual Differences; Mar 2004; 36(4); p. 913-929
  • Openness to experience: Gender differences and its correlates. Indiwar Misra; Journal of Personality and Clinical Studies; Mar 2003; 19(1); p. 141-151
  • Dream recall frequency, attitude towards dreams and openness to experience. Michael Schredl; Petra Ciric; Simon Götz; Lutz Wittmann; Dreaming; Sep 2003; 13(3); p. 145-153
  • Relationships among extraversion, openness to experience, and sensation seeking. Anton Aluja; Óscar García; Luís F. García; Personality and Individual Differences; Aug 2003; 35(3); p. 671-680
  • Personality traits and parenting: Neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience as discriminative factors. Riitta-Leena Metsäpelto; Lea Pulkkinen; European Journal of Personality; Jan-Feb 2003; 17(1); p. 59-78
  • Cognitive appraisals, neuroticism, and openness as correlates of coping strategies: An integrative model of adptation to marital difficulties. Geneviève Bouchard; Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; Jan 2003; 35(1); p. 1-12
  • Moderators of the openness to experience-performance relationship. L. A. Burke; L. A. Witt; Journal of Managerial Psychology; 2002; 17(8); p. 712-721
  • The personality variable Openness to Experience as it relates to homophobia. Jenifer M. Cullen; Lester W. Wright Jr.; Michael Alessandri; Journal of Homosexuality; 2002; 42(4); p. 119-134
  • Dream recall frequency and openness to experience: A negative finding. Michael Schredl; Personality and Individual Differences; Dec 2002; 33(8); p. 1285-1289
  • Openness to experience and growth need strength as moderators between job characteristics and satisfaction. Rendel D. de Jong; Mandy E. G. van der Velde; Paul G. W. Jansen; International Journal of Selection and Assessment; Dec 2001; 9(4); p. 350-356
  • Openness to experience and depression. J. M. Carrillo; N. Rojo; M. L. Sánchez-Bernardos; M. D. Avia; European Journal of Psychological Assessment; 2001; 17(2); p. 130-136
  • Psychophysiological correlates of the NEO PI-R openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness: Preliminary results. Con Stough; Catherine Donaldson; Belinda Scarlata; Joseph Ciorciari; International Journal of Psychophysiology; May 2001; 41(1); p. 87-91
  • The relationship between Openness to Experience and political ideology. Alain van Hiel; Malgorzata Kossowska; Ivan Mervielde; Personality and Individual Differences; Apr 2000; 28(4); p. 741-751
  • The Attitudinal and Behavioral Openness Scale: Scale development and construct validation. Paula M. Caligiuri; Rick R. Jacobs; James L. Farr; International Journal of Intercultural Relations; Jan 2000; 24(1); p. 27-46
  • Openness and job performance in U.S.-based Japaneses manufacturing companies. Mark N. Bing; John W. Lounsbury; Journal of Business and Psychology; Spr 2000; 14(3); p. 515-522
  • Fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and the openness/intellect factor. Michael C. Ashton; Kibeom Lee; Philip A. Vernon; Kerry L. Jang; Journal of Research in Personality; Jun 2000; 34(2); p. 198-207
  • Adaptability to changing task contexts: Effects of general cognitive ability, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience. Jeffrey A. Le Pine; Jason A. Colquitt; Amir Erez; Personnel Psychology; Fal 2000; 53(3); p. 563-593
  • Relation between transliminality and openness to experience. Michael A. Thalbourne; Psychological Reports; Jun 2000; 86(3,Pt1); p. 909-910
  • Latent inhibition and openness to experience in a high-achieving student population. Jordan B. Peterson; Shelley Carson; Personality and Individual Differences; Feb 2000; 28(2); p. 323-332