Openness
Adventurousness
How willing you are to try unfamiliar things and change your routines.
Why it is measured
Behavioural novelty-seeking is separable from intellectual or aesthetic openness.
What a high or low score looks like
High scorers prefer variety. Low scorers prefer what they know works.
Why it matters
About actions rather than ideas. People are often high on one and low on the other.
The items behind it
Four public-domain statements, answered on a five-point scale. Items marked − are reverse keyed: agreeing with them counts against the trait, which is what stops agreeing with everything from producing a high score.
- +Prefer variety to routine
- -Prefer to stick with things that I know
- -Dislike changes
- -Am attached to conventional ways
Four items is not many. A facet measured this way carries real uncertainty, which is why every score on this site is reported as a range rather than a single number.