title: Personality correlates of reporting Chinese words from the Deutsch "high-low" word illusion by Chinese-speaking people.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  When English-speaking people listen to the Deutsch "high-low" word illusion, they report hearing English words. Whether Chinese-speaking people report Chinese words when listening to the illusion, or whether any reported words might be correlated with personality traits as previous investigations have demonstrated for listening to music in other cultures, is open to question. The present study aimed to address this.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 308 right-handed, healthy volunteers (177 women and 131 men) were given the illusion test and asked to answer the Zuckerman-Kuhlman personality questionnaire (ZKPQ). Their depressive tendency was measured by the Plutchik-van Praag depression inventory (PVP).
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was no gender effect regarding either the PVP score or the number of reported Chinese words from the illusion. Women scored higher on ZKPQ neuroticism-anxiety than men. The number of meaningful Chinese words reported was correlated with the ZKPQ impulsive sensation-seeking, aggression-hostility, and activity scores. Some words reported by participants who scored higher on these three traits were related in meaning to those scales.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our preliminary results suggest that when Chinese-speaking people listen to the Deutsch "high-low" word illusion, they might use personality-related, specific cognitive schemata.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China.
authors.forename: You
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Junpeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Wanzhen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chai
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D013067:Speech Perception; D055815:Young Adult