title: Curious eyes: individual differences in personality predict eye movement behavior in scene-viewing.
abstract: Visual exploration is driven by two main factors - the stimuli in our environment, and our own individual interests and intentions. Research investigating these two aspects of attentional guidance has focused almost exclusively on factors common across individuals. The present study took a different tack, and examined the role played by individual differences in personality. Our findings reveal that trait curiosity is a robust and reliable predictor of an individual's eye movement behavior in scene-viewing. These findings demonstrate that who a person is relates to how they move their eyes.
authors: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona 85306,United States. Evan.Risko@asu.edu
authors: Evan F
authors: EF
authors: Risko
authors: Nicola C
authors: NC
authors: Anderson
authors: Sophie
authors: S
authors: Lanthier
authors: Alan
authors: A
authors: Kingstone
mesh_terms: D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult