Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences.

Paul J. Silvia; Kirill Fayn; Emily C. Nusbaum; Roger E. Beaty

doi:10.1037/aca0000028

Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences.

Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts ◽

10.1037/aca0000028 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 376-384 ◽

Cited By ~ 64

Author(s):

Paul J. Silvia ◽

Kirill Fayn ◽

Emily C. Nusbaum ◽

Roger E. Beaty

Keyword(s):

Openness To Experience ◽

Aesthetic Experiences

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Supplemental Material for Openness to Experience and Awe in Response to Nature and Music: Personality and Profound Aesthetic Experiences

Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts ◽

10.1037/aca0000028.supp ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Openness To Experience ◽

Aesthetic Experiences

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The Art of Feeling Different: Measuring and Exploring the Diversity of Emotions Experienced During a Museum Visit

10.31234/osf.io/f7g5a ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rebekah Rodriguez ◽

Anna Fekete ◽

Paul Silvia ◽

Katherine N. Cotter

Keyword(s):

Aesthetic Experience ◽

Emotional Experience ◽

Openness To Experience ◽

Street Art ◽

Aesthetic Experiences ◽

The Arts ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

The Individual ◽

First Time ◽

Emotional Balance

The aesthetic experience of a collection of works—such as a sculpture garden, a neighborhood filled with street art, or an afternoon spent wandering in a museum—is not simply the sum of experiences of the individual works. In the present research, we explored visit-level aesthetic experiences in a field study of 298 visitors to a museum of modern and contemporary art. In particular, we focused on emotional diversity: the richness, complexity, and heterogeneity of the emotions that people experienced during their visit. After their visit, participants reported the degree to which they experienced, if at all, 10 emotions, for which we calculated diversity metrics reflecting their emotional variety (the number of emotions experienced) and emotional balance (the relative evenness between emotions or dominance of a single emotion) during the visit. Overall, the sample reported a rich aesthetic experience, but there was wide and predictable variability. Among other findings, emotional variety was higher for people with greater openness to experience and among first-time visitors to the museum; emotional balance was higher among people high in openness to experience and people with greater interest in art. The concept of diversity—the richness and complexity of someone’s emotional experience of the arts—appears promising for understanding holistic aesthetic experiences, such as entire museum visits rather than single works, as well as for many other questions in empirical aesthetics.

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Is the Personal Always Political?

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000230 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 133-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Danny Osborne ◽

Yannick Dufresne ◽

Gregory Eady ◽

Jennifer Lees-Marshment ◽

Cliff van der Linden

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

National Survey ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Openness To Experience ◽

Political Sophistication ◽

Knowledge Based

Abstract. Research demonstrates that the negative relationship between Openness to Experience and conservatism is heightened among the informed. We extend this literature using national survey data (Study 1; N = 13,203) and data from students (Study 2; N = 311). As predicted, education – a correlate of political sophistication – strengthened the negative relationship between Openness and conservatism (Study 1). Study 2 employed a knowledge-based measure of political sophistication to show that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction was restricted to the Openness aspect of Openness. These studies demonstrate that knowledge helps people align their ideology with their personality, but that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction is specific to one aspect of Openness – nuances that are overlooked in the literature.

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Investment Traits and Intelligence in Adulthood

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000101 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 82-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Sophie von Stumm

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Fluid Intelligence ◽

Need For Cognition ◽

Openness To Experience ◽

Intelligence Tests ◽

Crystallized Intelligence ◽

New Knowledge ◽

The Relationship ◽

Over Time

Intelligence-as-knowledge in adulthood is influenced by individual differences in intelligence-as-process (i.e., fluid intelligence) and in personality traits that determine when, where, and how people invest their intelligence over time. Here, the relationship between two investment traits (i.e., Openness to Experience and Need for Cognition), intelligence-as-process and intelligence-as-knowledge, as assessed by a battery of crystallized intelligence tests and a new knowledge measure, was examined. The results showed that (1) both investment traits were positively associated with intelligence-as-knowledge; (2) this effect was stronger for Openness to Experience than for Need for Cognition; and (3) associations between investment and intelligence-as-knowledge reduced when adjusting for intelligence-as-process but remained mostly significant.

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