Some See It, Some Don't: Exploring the Relation between Inattentional Blindness and Personality Factors.

ABSTRACT: Human awareness is highly limited, which is vividly demonstrated by the phenomenon that unexpected objects go unnoticed when attention is focused elsewhere (inattentional blindness). Typically, some people fail to notice unexpected objects while others detect them instantaneously. Whether this pattern reflects stable individual differences is unclear to date. In particular, hardly anything is known about the influence of personality on the likelihood of inattentional blindness. To fill this empirical gap, we examined the role of multiple personality factors, namely the Big Five, BIS/BAS, absorption, achievement motivation, and schizotypy, in these failures of awareness. In a large-scale sample (N = 554), susceptibility to inattentional blindness was associated with a low level of openness

SUBMITTER: Kreitz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4443971 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature