Talk:Openness to experience/Archive 1

Archive 1

Contradiction

In the article is written: "Openness is also associated with fluid intelligence, but not crystallized intelligence."

However if you look at the abstract from the 12th note page(the one cited to illustrate the fact of openness/IQ correlation); you will see that they consider, based on their findings, that both fluid and crystallized intelligence are correlated to openness...

So what is right??!? Is crystallized intelligence correlated to openness or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.175.39.20 (talk) 00:56, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I have included a reference to a research article that cites evidence that openness is correlated moderately with crystallized intelligence and rather weakly with fluid. I have also noted that the correlation between openness and general intelligence is reasonably substantial rather than 'weak' as previously stated. Smcg8374 10:02, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Openness and psychological well-being

The lead contains an unreferenced statement that openness is unrelated to any measure of psychological well being. However, later in the article there is a statement that openness is related to life satisfaction, a psychological well-being construct, in older adults, hence contradicting the lead statement. The lead statement needs to be qualified or deleted. Smcg8374 12:48, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Life Outcomes

I think it would be good to add a section about common careers and advantages/disadvantages that are experienced by people who are high/low in openness. I'm also not positive, but I think Openness might be correlated with the honesty/humility factor of the [HEXACO model].Abj89 (talk) 13:30, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Importance

It surely makes no sense for this article to be rated as high importance, when the project psychology example of a mid-importance article is 'Big 5 personality traits', of which this is just one facet.

I will therefore downgrade it to 'mid'. Perhaps the theory should be 'high importance' but I will leave that for others to consider. Neezes (talk) 10:33, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Although, Big 5 personality traits is listed as an example of a mid-importance article as you noted, the example is not correct. I checked the Talk Page for Big five personality traits, it is ranked as a high-importance article, so the Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology/Assessment page needs to be updated. Whether openness to experience should be listed as high importance, I am not entirely sure, as the criteria are a bit subjective. The topic has been extensively studied but I am not sure that "most experts in psychology will be familiar with the topic". --Smcg8374 (talk) 06:15, 6 August 2015 (UTC)