Agreeable smellers and sensitive neurotics - correlations among personality traits and sensory thresholds
- Correlations between personality traits and a wide range of sensory thresholds were examined. Participants (N = 124) completed a personality inventory (NEO-FFI) and underwent assessment of olfactory, trigeminal, tactile and gustatory detection thresholds, as well as examination of trigeminal and tactile pain thresholds. Significantly enhanced odor sensitivity in socially agreeable people, significantly enhanced trigeminal sensitivity in neurotic subjects, and a tendency for enhanced pain tolerance in highly conscientious participants was revealed. It is postulated that varied sensory processing may influence an individual's perception of the environment; particularly their perception of socially relevant or potentially dangerous stimuli and thus, varied with personality.
| Author: | Ilona Croy, Maria Springborn, Jörn LötschORCiDGND, Amy N. B. Johnston, Thomas HummelORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-114680 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018701 |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Parent Title (English): | PLoS One |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2011/04/27 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2011/04/27 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2011/09/06 |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | (4): e18701 |
| Note: | Copyright: © 2011 Croy et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Source: | PLoS ONE 6(4): e18701. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018701 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 276039858 |
| Institutes: | Fachübergreifende Einrichtungen / Zentrum für Arzneimittelforschung, Entwicklung und Sicherheit |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
