Confused or Curious? Openness/Intellect Predicts More Positive Interest-Confusion Relations
Confused or Curious? Openness/Intellect Predicts More Positive Interest-Confusion Relations
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DOI：
10.1037/pspp0000257
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发表时间：
2019-11-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Kuppens, Peter
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作者：
Fayn, Kirill;Silvia, Paul J.;Kuppens, Peter
开放的人对复杂、新奇和难以理解的情况表现出更大的兴趣，这些情况也可能会让人感到困惑。在这里，我们调查的可能性，开放性/智力的主要特点是更积极的关系之间的利益和混乱。兴趣和困惑是参与信息和学习过程中经历的关键状态。然而，很少有人知道他们之间的人的关系，更不用说在这种关系的个体差异。我们通过使用不同的范式，刺激和参与者来测试我们的假设。在五项研究（N = 640）中，我们测试了开放性/智力与人内兴趣混淆关系之间的关系，以应对艺术（研究1）;科学，哲学和艺术（研究2）;心理学讲座（研究3）;诗歌（研究4）;和复杂的问题解决任务（研究5）。不同研究之间的平均兴趣混淆关系各不相同，但对于所有研究，关系的分布从高度负到高度正，个体差异的方向，而不仅仅是程度。除了一项研究之外，我们发现所有的研究都支持我们的假设-开放性/智力与兴趣和困惑之间的积极关系有关。没有其他人格领域或智力与兴趣混淆关系一致相关。总之，这些发现提出了一个新的现象学方面的开放好奇心对混乱的情况。我们的研究结果支持开放性/智力和敏感性之间的联系，复杂的信息的价值，并讨论了他们的参与与信息和学习的相关性。
Open people show greater interest in situations that are complex, novel, and difficult to understand-situations that may also be experienced as confusing. Here we investigate the possibility that openness/intellect is centrally characterized by more positive relations between interest and confusion. Interest and confusion are key states experienced during engagement with information and learning. However, little is known about the within-person relation between them, let alone individual differences in this relation. We tested our hypotheses by making use of different paradigms, stimuli, and participants. Across five studies (N = 640) we tested the relation between openness/intellect and within-person interest-confusion relations in response to art (Study 1); science, philosophy, and art (Study 2); psychology lectures (Study 3); a poem (Study 4); and a complex problem solving task (Study 5). Average interest-confusion relations varied between different studies, but for all studies the distributions of the relations went from highly negative to highly positive-individual differences in direction rather than just degree. In all but 1 study we found consistent support for our hypotheses-openness/intellect is associated with more positive relations between interest and confusion. No other personality domain or intelligence was consistently related to interest-confusion relations. Together, these findings suggest a new phenomenological aspect of being open-curiosity toward confusing situations. Our findings support the link between openness/intellect and sensitivity to the value of complex information, and are discussed with regards to their relevance for engagement with information and learning.