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An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits

Jess Williams Orcid Logo, Mark Blagrove Orcid Logo

Journal of Research in Personality, Start page: 104539

Swansea University Authors: Jess Williams Orcid Logo, Mark Blagrove Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104539

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This study investigated whether sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is associated with a perceptual advantage, above just heightened brain, emotional and behavioural reactivity. Participants (N = 222) were tested on detection and identification of visually degraded words at three levels of difficul...

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ISSN: 0092-6566
Published: Elsevier BV 2024
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title An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits
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title_short An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits
title_full An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits
title_fullStr An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits
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description This study investigated whether sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is associated with a perceptual advantage, above just heightened brain, emotional and behavioural reactivity. Participants (N = 222) were tested on detection and identification of visually degraded words at three levels of difficulty, and completed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) and the Big Five Inventory. The positive subscale of the HSPS predicted both the detection and identification of visually degraded stimuli, beyond the Big Five traits. This contradicts claims that SPS is solely a combination of Big Five traits. Importantly, the perceptual advantage for highly sensitives may balance the disadvantages of being easily overwhelmed by stimuli and indicates separate evolutionary advantages and strategies for high and low SPS humans and other mammals.
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