Attention to faces in images is associated with personality and psychopathology.

ABSTRACT: Humans show a robust tendency to look at faces in images, but also differ consistently in the strength of this attentional preference. Previous research remained inconclusive as to how a stronger face preference may be indicative of an individual's personality or clinical characteristics. Here we investigated face preferences in 120 participants (primarily drawn from a student population) who freely viewed photos in an internet browser showing a person in the context of a visually rich environment while attention was assessed using a cursor-based technique. Participants differed consistently in the strength of their face preference across images. A stronger preference for faces was correlated positively with openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness and empathizing and was correl

SUBMITTER: Rubo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9931157 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature