16 PF correlates of perceptual reactance.
College students (n = 24 males, 36 females) volunteered to take the kinesthetic figural aftereffect task and the 16 PF in a survey of state versus trait personality correlates of perceptual reactance. A reliable emergence of the trait component of perceptual reactance over trials was noted. Perceptual reducers were outgoing, affected by feelings, happy-go-lucky, practical, and undisciplined, while augmenters were reserved, stable, sober, imaginative, and controlled. Findings tend to support the trait model of perceptual reactance, with interference from a state component.
D005260:Female; D005366:Figural Aftereffect; D006801:Humans; D007699:Kinesthesis; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012684:Sensory Thresholds