TY  - JOUR
A1  - Croy, Ilona
A1  - Springborn, Maria
A1  - Lötsch, Jörn
A1  - Johnston, Amy N. B.
A1  - Hummel, Thomas
T1  - Agreeable smellers and sensitive neurotics - correlations among personality traits and sensory thresholds
T2  - PLoS One
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2011
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/22623
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-114680
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - 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.
VL  - 6
IS  - (4): e18701
ER  -