Openness to experience
Openness to experience is a factor-analytically determined personality trait in personality psychology. This feature, together with extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism the five main dimensions of personality according to the five - factor model (Big Five). It is assumed to be normally distributed, such that most people have average characteristics and extreme values are rare.
People with lots of openness are characterized by adjectives ( lexical approach) as
- Imaginative, original, inventive, imaginative
- Intellectually curious, open to new ideas
- Interested in the aesthetic as art, music and poetry
- With a preference for variety (rather than routine ), tendency to new activities, new destinations, new food, etc.
- Attention for their own and others' emotions
- Willing to challenge traditional values into question
At the other end of the scale (low openness ) are adjectives such as traditional, conservative, conventional, routine, uninterested, etc.