Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations.

ABSTRACT: People rapidly make first impressions of others, often based on very little information-minimal exposure to faces or voices is sufficient for humans to make up their mind about personality of others. While there has been considerable research on voice personality perception, much less is known about its relevance to hallucination-proneness, despite auditory hallucinations being frequently perceived as personified social agents. The present paper reports two studies investigating the relation between voice personality perception and hallucination-proneness in non-clinical samples. A voice personality perception task was created, in which participants rated short voice recordings on four personality characteristics, relating to dimensions of the voice's perceived Valence and Dominance. Hiera

SUBMITTER: Mitrenga KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6690516 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature