Trial reportPsychology and aging2012
Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training increases openness to experience in older adults.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Big Five personality traits and allostatic load in middle to older adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Computerised cognitive training for 12 or more weeks for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in late life.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Computerised cognitive training for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in midlife.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Computerised cognitive training for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in late life.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Computerised cognitive training for preventing dementia in people with mild cognitive impairment.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Genetic and environmental continuity in personality development: a meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2014Pooled it
- Personality trait level and change as predictors of health outcomes: findings from a national study of Americans (MIDUS).The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2012Pooled it
- The impact of age and motivation on cognitive effort: implications for cognitive engagement in older adulthood.Psychology and aging · 2013Trial
- Personality factors moderate the associations between apolipoprotein genotype and cognitive function as well as late onset Alzheimer disease.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2012Trial
- The interplay of life satisfaction and cognitive reserve: implications for cognitive changes in old age.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
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- Effectiveness of a guided multicomponent internet and mobile gratitude training program - A pragmatic randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- Antecedents of mind wandering states in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment.Neuropsychology · 2024Article
- Personality traits moderate associations between word recall and subjective memory.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2024Article
- Associations between personality and psychological characteristics and cognitive outcomes among older adults.Psychology and aging · 2024Article
- The multiple self and psychological openness.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Association between a combination of cognitively stimulating leisure activities and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid intake on cognitive decline among community-dwelling older Japanese individuals.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Evaluation of a multi-component training programme for employees aged 50.European journal of ageing · 2022Article
- Psychological resilience is an independent correlate of health-related quality of life in middle-aged and older adults with HIV in the Deep South.Journal of health psychology · 2022Article
- Openness to Experience Moderates the Association of Warmth Profiles and Subjective Well-Being in Left-Behind and Non-Left-Behind Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The present study investigated whether an intervention aimed to increase cognitive ability in older adults also changes the personality trait of openness to experience. Older adults completed a 16-week program in inductive reasoning training supplemented by weekly crossword and Sudoku puzzles. Changes in openness to experience were modeled across four assessments over 30 weeks using latent growth curve models. Results indicate that participants in the intervention condition increased in the trait of openness compared with a waitlist control group. The study is one of the first to demonstrate that personality traits can change through nonpsychopharmocological interventions.
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