The present research examines the influence of personality on ideologies about diversity in society. In two studies (N = 668), we test whether Openness to Experience predicts beliefs in multiculturalism and colorblindness, and whether these relationships are mediated by perspective-taking tendencies. In Study 1, Openness positively predicted multiculturalism but negatively predicted colorblindness through ethnic perspective taking – findings that were independent of empathy, age, gender, and race/ethnicity. In Study 2, we attempted to replicate and extend our findings by using different measures of multiculturalism and colorblindness and a more general, interpersonal operationalization of perspective taking. Results indicate Openness positively predicted both multiculturalism and colorblindness through interpersonal perspective taking (also independent of age, gender, and race/ethnicity), suggesting the pattern of findings varied as a function of perspective-taking type. Implications for the complexity of the Openness dimension and future research directions are discussed.

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向多元化开放

本研究考察了人格对社会多样性意识形态的影响。在两项研究（N = 668）中，我们测试了“体验的开放性”是否可以预测对多元文化和色盲的信仰，以及这些关系是否由观点采择倾向所介导。在研究1中，开放性通过种族观点的接受来正面地预测了多元文化主义，但是负面地预测了色盲-与移情，年龄，性别和种族/民族无关的发现。在研究2中，我们尝试通过使用多元文化主义和色盲的不同措施以及更普遍的人际关系视角操作来复制和扩展我们的发现。结果表明，开放性通过人际观点采择（还独立于年龄，性别和种族/民族）积极预测了多元文化主义和色盲，表明发现的模式随观点采择类型而变化。讨论了开放性维度的复杂性和未来的研究方向。