*Corresponding author at: Facultad de Psicología, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n, 18011 Granada, Spain. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.C. Sierra). Abstract In this study we examined the relationship between gender, age, religion, neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, and obsessiveness on one side and the frequency and content of sexual cognitions experienced as being posi...

The psychedelic experience (including psychedelic-induced ego dissolution) can effect lasting change in a person's attitudes and beliefs. Here, we aimed to investigate the association between naturalistic psychedelic use and personality, political perspectives, and nature relatedness using an anonymous internet survey. Participants (N = 893) provided information about their naturalistic psyched...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications have recently seen an enormous success and have reached millions of users. The main reason of this success is the anonymity the users enjoy. However, as recent experiences with P2P networks show, this anonymity offers an opportunity to exploit the network like free-rider, virus spread, malicious file spread etc. The problem of securing hosts on P2P network while ...

The goal of my dissertation research is to track learning (e.g., developing capabilities, understanding, and participation) in an informal after school cooking and science learning environment designed based on constructivist theories of and approaches to learning. I seek to understand what factors contribute to and prohibit learning. I am taking four points of view on learning and knowing to a...

OBJECTIVE To examine the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI) Openness to Experience (O) domain and its facets as predictors of cardiac deaths and all-cause mortality. METHODS The NEO PI was administered to a sample of 977 coronary catheterization patients with significant coronary artery disease. Over an average 15-year follow-up period, 266 cardiac deaths and 463 total deaths occurred. The re...

Fantasy proneness has recently been related to creative thinking. To try and explain this link, we examined whether the relation was mediated by Openness Experience (openness) because fantasy openness involve an imaginative thinking style. Study 1 assessed (Creative Experiences Questionnaire), openness, (divergent) in 87 undergraduates (77% women, mean age 21 years). 2 replicated method with mu...