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  • Inattentional blindness is the failure to perceive unexpected stimuli during attention-demanding tasks.
  • Individual differences in cognitive ability and personality are often assumed to influence this phenomenon.

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  • To systematically investigate whether individual differences in cognitive ability and personality predict the likelihood of noticing unexpected objects.
  • To synthesize existing empirical evidence through meta-analysis.

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  • A comprehensive literature search identified 38 empirical reports on inattentional blindness with individual difference measures.
  • Meta-analyses were conducted on effect sizes from 31 records, encompassing 74 distinct samples, examining 14 cognitive and 19 personality measures.
  • Robustness analyses were performed, including excluding samples with very few participants who noticed or missed the unexpected object.

Main Results:

  • Collectively, meta-analyses revealed little evidence that individual differences in cognitive ability or personality predict the noticing of unexpected objects.
  • A robustness analysis yielded similar results, indicating the main findings were not driven by low-sample outliers.
  • The number of samples and total sample sizes for most measures were small, suggesting a need for larger studies.

Conclusions:

  • The study provides limited support for the idea that individual differences in cognitive ability or personality predict inattentional blindness.
  • Results suggest that noticing unexpected events may differ from deliberate attentional control tasks, as it is not reliably predicted by cognitive abilities.
  • Larger, more systematic studies are required to fully understand individual differences in inattentional blindness.