ABSTRACT
This chapter reports some data and ideas comparing the concepts of “stimulus-seeking” and “conservatism”. The research was stimulated by-Wilson's analysis of conservatism as a pervasive general factor which permeates social attitudes and seems to be a tendency to “resist change”. It seemed, to this author, that conservatism was the obverse of a personality variable in which he was primarily interested, namely the tendency to seek change and novelty. Some research was, therefore, carried out in order to examine the relationship between these traits.
