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Open-mindedness is receptiveness to new ideas. Open-mindedness relates to the way in which people approach the views and knowledge of others. [1] Jason Baehr defines an open-minded person as one who "characteristically moves beyond or temporarily sets aside his own doxastic commitments in order to give a fair and impartial hearing to the intellectual opposition". [2]
The central term in this definition is connections. It adopts a relational stance in which learning takes place both in relation to others and in relation to learning resources. [ 1 ] In design and practice, networked learning is intended to facilitate evolving sets of connections between learners and their interpersonal communities, knowledge ...
In 2014, Life implanted an open peer review system, [19] under which the peer-review reports and authors' responses are published as an integral part of the final version of each article. Since 2016, Synlett is experimenting with closed crowd peer review. The article under review is sent to a pool of 80+ expert reviewers who then ...
It is often argued that open-ended questions (i.e. questions that elicit more than a yes/no answers) are preferable because they open up discussion and enquiry. Peter Worley argues that this is a false assumption. This is based on Worley's central arguments that there are two different kinds of open and closed questions: grammatical and conceptual.
PsyArXiv is a preprint repository for the psychological sciences opened in September 2016 [1] and officially launched in December 2016. [2] [3] It is hosted by the Center for Open Science. [4]
Cohen, Stotland and Wolfe (1955), [3] in their work on individual differences in cognitive motivation, identified a "need for cognition" which they defined as "the individual's need to organize his experience meaningfully", the "need to structure relevant situations in meaningful, integrated ways", and "need to understand and make reasonable the experiential world" (p. 291).
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Openness to experience is one of the domains which are used to describe human personality in the Five Factor Model. [1] [2] Openness involves six facets, or dimensions: active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety (adventurousness), intellectual curiosity, and challenging authority (psychological liberalism). [3]