People who rate high in openness to new experiences in personality tests also may be more distractible and curious, according to a 2010 study in Creativity Research Journal.

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The term was popularized by Nev Schulman who, after falling in love with a fake personality on Facebook, decided to make a documentary about his experiences and later signed on to host a show about the phenomenon on MTV.

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The process of making these decisions comes from an accumulation of experiences and encounters with a multitude of difference circumstances, personality types and unforeseen failures.

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