In the first edition of The Sciences of Artificial (1969), Herbert A. Simon lamented the lack of research on “the science of design” which characterized the curricula of both professional schools and universities throughout three decades after the Second World War. In the phrasing of the Nobel laureate, the reason hinged on academic respectability, because “in terms of the prevailing norms, aca...

To establish the intellectual identity of the organization, it is important for every organization to revitalize creative activity inside and attract intellectual interest from outside the organization. This paper proposes a framework to support attraction of outside interest by disclosing the organizational intellect. We have developed models of organizational intellect and a support environme...

We characterize Openness/Intellect as motivated cognitive flexibility, or cognitive exploration, and develop a neuropsychological model relating it to dopaminergic function and to the functions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Evidence is reviewed for sources of Openness/Intellect shared with Extraversion and sources unique to Openness/Intellect. The hypothesis that the cognitive functions of th...

The current project investigated why people with high levels of Openness/Intellect tend to have higher levels of cognitive functioning than people with lower levels of Openness/Intellect. We hypothesized that the positive relationship between Openness/Intellect and cognition might be attributable to more open people being more likely to engage in cognitively stimulating activities that are bene...