Individual differences in personality predict how people look at faces.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Determining the ways in which personality traits interact with contextual determinants to shape social behavior remains an important area of empirical investigation. The specific personality trait of neuroticism has been related to characteristic negative emotionality and associated with heightened attention to negative, emotionally arousing environmental signals. However, the mechanisms by which this personality trait may shape social behavior remain largely unspecified.

Methodology/principal findings

We employed eye tracking to investigate the relationship between characteristics of visual scanpaths in response to emotional facial expressions and individual differences in personality. We discovered that the amount of time spent looking at the eyes of fearful fac

SUBMITTER: Perlman SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2695783 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature