A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Open and empathic personalities see two things at the same time: the relationship of big-five personality traits and cognitive empathy with mixed percepts during binocular rivalry
Authors: Koivisto Mika, Virkkala Maija, Puustinen Mika, Aarnio Jetta
Publisher: Springer
Publication year: 2021
Journal: Current Psychology
Journal name in source: CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
Journal acronym: Curr Psychol
Number of pages: 11
ISSN: 1046-1310
eISSN: 1936-4733
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02249-7
Web address : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-021-02249-7
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/67223472
Does our personality predict what we see? This question was studied in 100 university students with binocular rivalry paradigm by presenting incompatible images to each eye, allowing multiple interpretations of the same sensory input. During continuous binocular presentation, dominance of perception starts to fluctuate between the images. When neither of the images is fully suppressed, the two images combine into mixed percepts. We focused on the link between mixed percepts, big-five traits, and empathy. The results revealed that openness and agreeableness correlated with the occurrence of mixed percepts after the first dominant perception. However, these correlations of openness and agreeableness were mediated by cognitive empathy. In addition, openness had a direct association with reporting the initial percept in the onset of stimulation as a mixed percept, suggesting a mechanism that is separate from the one mediated by cognitive empathy. Overall, the results provide preliminary evidence suggesting that personality predicts what we see. Such individual differences in perceptual interpretations may be linked to both higher level cognitive mechanisms as well as lower level visual mechanisms.
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