Effect of personality on magnitude-estimation scaling of complex auditory stimuli.
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of the personality trait of extraversion/introversion on magnitude-estimation scaling of complex auditory stimuli. Two groups of subjects, 10 who liked rock music (M age = 22.4 yr.) and 10 who disliked rock music (M age = 21.9 yr.), were tested. Subjects were instructed to assign numerical values to a random series of nine suprathreshold intensity levels of a 10-sec. sample of rock music. Each subject was given the Eysenck Personality Inventory, a test designed to measure the personality trait of extraversion/introversion. Statistical analyses indicated that the personality trait of extraversion/introversion did not appear to have an effect on the way the subjects scaled the rock-music stimulus.
Banks
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School of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Ohio University, Athens 45701.
Fucci
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Petrosino
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Leach
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Christopher
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory