Personality, emotional state, and perception of nonverbal communications.
The study investigated whether emotionally provoking disagreements between 36 marriage partners influenced their ability to identify each other's feelings from tone of voice cues. The results suggested that among the males the ability of stable introverts to identify increased after disagreements, while that of neurotic introverts decreased (p smaller than 0.01).
D003463:Cues; D004644:Emotions; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D009497:Neurotic Disorders; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D010551:Personality; D012737:Sex Factors