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Personality Traits Do Not Predict How We Look at Faces.

Charlotte Harrison¹, Nicola Binetti¹, Antoine Coutrot²

¹Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, UK.

|July 19, 2018

Summary

Personality traits do not significantly influence mutual gaze duration or eye-region fixation. This study suggests context or arousal, not personality, may explain previous findings on gaze behavior.

Keywords:

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Background:

Previous research on personality's influence on gaze behavior has yielded mixed results.
A prior study found no link between self-reported personality traits and preferred mutual gaze duration.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if a more comprehensive personality assessment (Big Five Inventory) reveals correlations with gaze behavior.
To examine the relationship between personality traits and mutual gaze duration, blink rate, and eye-region fixation duration.

Main Methods:

77 participants from a previous study completed the Big Five Inventory.
Measures included preferred mutual gaze duration, number of blinks, and total fixation duration in the eye region.

Main Results:

No significant correlations were found between any personality traits and the measured gaze behaviors.
The comprehensive personality assessment did not reveal any significant associations.

Conclusions:

Personality traits do not appear to significantly influence mutual gaze duration, blink rate, or eye-region fixation.
Discrepancies with prior literature may be due to contextual factors or arousal modulation.