Active Open-Minded Thinking Test
An original 20-question measure of thinking style — how willing you are to seek evidence against your own beliefs, weigh contrary views, and revise your conclusions.
20 questions
5 min
Instructions
Answer how much you agree with each statement — not how you'd like to think, but how you actually tend to operate in your thinking.Original items written for this test within the Active Open-Minded Thinking construct (Baron; Stanovich & West). No AOT instrument items are reproduced.
Citations
- Baron, J. (2019). Actively open-minded thinking in politics. Cognition, 188, 8-18. Construct framing
- Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (2000). Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23(5), 645-665. Thinking dispositions framework this adaptation draws on