Rubo, Marius; Käthner, Ivo; Munsch, Simone (2023). Attention to faces in images is associated with personality and psychopathology. PLoS ONE, 18(2), e0280427. Public Library of Science 10.1371/journal.pone.0280427
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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 correlated negatively with social anxiety, depression levels and alexithymia. Trait measures were linked through a strong common factor which was additionally correlated with face preference. We conclude that face preferences may be linked to personality traits and to psychopathology but that an attribution to a specific facet of psychopathology may not be warranted. Future research should investigate links between face preferences and personality features in more diverse samples and across differing social situations.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Methodology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Rubo, Marius |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology |
ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
Publisher: |
Public Library of Science |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
16 Feb 2023 09:40 |
Last Modified: |
19 Feb 2023 02:19 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0280427 |
PubMed ID: |
36791081 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/178861 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/178861 |
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