Types / Personality facets / Love of ideas
A facet inside Openness
How much you enjoy abstract, theoretical or philosophical questions and discussion.
Your interest in abstract, theoretical, philosophical, and challenging discussion. The lower end prefers concrete and practical subjects.
This is one scale with two ends, not two camps. Most people land somewhere between them, and neither end is better. The labels describe different ways of answering the statements.
Someone toward this end usually wants an explanation to become useful quickly. They may prefer instructions, examples, and a clear decision over a long discussion about principles or possibilities. That practicality helps turn information into action, though it can leave little patience for questions whose value appears only after a long conversation.
Someone toward this end enjoys following a question past its first answer. They may compare principles, test assumptions, and connect a small decision with a larger picture. That depth can reveal options others miss, though discussion may continue after the practical choice is already clear.
Openness is the average of six facets, and Love of ideas is one part of it. Someone can land differently on each of the six scales, so the broad result doesn’t tell the whole story.
How vividly you imagine, daydream and become absorbed in thoughts or fantasy.
How strongly art, poetry and beauty catch your attention and matter to you.
How closely you notice your own feelings and sense what others feel.
How readily you choose variety, welcome change and move beyond familiar routines.
How much you enjoy abstract, theoretical or philosophical questions and discussion.
How readily you question authority, convention and established ways of seeing things.
Answer 120 short statements for a reading across all 30 facets, with each scale explained in plain English.
No. Each end comes with something that helps and something that gets in the way. Some scale names sound like faults in everyday English, but an end label describes what the statements asked about, not a grade.
It happens often, and it’s the reason these 30 facets exist. A broad score is an average of six parts, so one part can point the other way. Nothing is wrong when a facet and its broad trait don’t match perfectly.
A score is compared with 320,128 U.S. adults who answered the original statements online during the roughly 12 years before 2014. Their published average and spread provide a typical range for the facet, showing how the score compares with that group.
