Openness to Experience and Preferences for Natural Landscapes: an Evolutionary Approach
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Evolutionary psychology, Enviromental psychology, Openness to experienceAbstract
Evolutionary psychology conceptualizes personality in terms of inferred structures that manifest themselves as behavioral tendencies or dispositions. In this perspective the Big Five Personality Model consists of five broad dimensions which are also influenced by motivational systems. The present paper presents a study assessing the relationship between Openness to experience and preferences among natural landscapes. The study also investigated the choice for environments considered safer by the participants. Two facets of the Scale of Openness to Experience were positively related to measures of perception security, but no facet correlated with measures of simple preferences. The research suggests the need for more accurate methods to investigate the relationship between personality and preference for environmental conditions.Downloads
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