The mediating role of positive orientation in the relationship between personality traits and attitudes towards artificial intelligence

Wiesław Talik

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0342317

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The mediating role of positive orientation in the relationship between personality traits and attitudes towards artificial intelligence

Wiesław Talik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: talik@kul.pl

Affiliation Institute of Sociological Science, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1206-3968

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The mediating role of positive orientation in the relationship between personality traits and attitudes towards artificial intelligence

Wiesław Talik

Published: March 11, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0342317

About the Authors

Wiesław Talik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: talik@kul.pl

Affiliation Institute of Sociological Science, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1206-3968

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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