Many successful creative people have the same personality trait in common: they are open to new experiences. Psychologist Art Markman defines “openness to experience” as “the degree to which a person ...

Openness is particularly distributed with a small number of individuals scoring extremely high or low on the trait, and most people do tend to score moderately on this trait. Do note people who do ...

I recently started a new series exploring the five characteristics of highly impactful leaders, with the first three characteristics centered around practicing emotional agility, creating a clear ...

We’ve been framing the debate between openness and privacy the wrong way. Rather than positioning privacy and openness as opposing forces, the fact is they’re different sides of the same coin – and ...

Living cooperatively in a culturally diverse world is one of the great challenges of our time. This issue has become especially salient in the United States as record numbers of immigrants are ...

One of the greatest misconceptions of a strong person is that they’re bulletproof, says this resiliency expert, and that they somehow don’t feel stress, pain, fear, worry, or loss. Strength is a ...

In every society, there exists a certain degree of trade-off between openness and privacy. Some countries push societal openness to the extreme. In Sweden, for example, all tax returns are publicly ...

Source: Photo by Alice Dietrich on Unsplash. How open to new experiences are you? If you ever feel as if your work life falls into a rut, consider how open (or not) you are. In the field of psychology ...

Rufus Pollock is an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge; the Founder and non-executive President of Open Knowledge International (https ...

Nuclear power is, and will be, part of the solution when it comes to climate change mitigation, helping countries achieve their goals and supporting social and economic development in the transition ...