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...

The security community has used psychological research on attacker personalities, but little work has been done to investigate the personalities of the defenders. One instrument currently dominating personality research is the Five Factor Model, a taxonomy that identifies five major domains of personal traits, composed of sets of facets. This model can be used within an organizational or vocati...

Both psychoanalytic views of attachment and evolutionary theories of imprinting suggest that mates may be preferentially chosen to resemble one’s parents. Using data from a large Dutch study of twins and their families, we tested these hypotheses with regard to personality traits from the Five-Factor Model. Little evidence of parent/spouse similarity was found, although women did tend to select...

Since the late 1970s internal migration has become a fundamental feature of economicand social change in the People’s Republic of China. So has rapid urbanization as therural population moves to the cities and towns in search for work. In the process, newurban spaces have been created that not only provide the springboard for economicdevelopment but also present challenges for s...

Researchers typically assume that economic openness increases volatility. But the conventional empirical shorthand for economic openness (trade as a share of overall income) fails to account for crucial distinctions in the way that states trade. States that are deeply incorporated into the core of the international trading network have very different experiences than states at the periphery wit...

The Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS) was designed to measure individual trait dispositions in both anticipatory and consummatory experiences of pleasure. From an initial pool of theory-based items, we developed a 10-item anticipatory pleasure scale and an 8-item consummatory pleasure scale using several large college-age samples; the two scales were both internally consistent and te...

Purpose – To examine work on phenomenology and determine what information studies can learn and use from that work. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a literature-based conceptual analysis of pioneering work in phenomenology (including that of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Paul Ricoeur, and others), application of such ideas as intentionality and being in information studies ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009) promised strict accounting of all funds spent and the publication of that information to the public in relative real-time. The federal requirements for reporting Recovery Act funds relied heavily on the ability of recipients, primarily state governments, to capture, manage, and deliver the data required. This paper presents the experience of one...

Given the active and authentic nature of Massively-Multiplayer Online Games, researchers have begun to question the use of this virtual setting as a teaching/learning tool (Barab et al., 2010; Squire, 2006). Specific findings in virtual environments show that several personal factors mediate an individual’s experiences within that environment (Przybylski, Rigby, & Ryan, 2010). Although physical...