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In this study Ss classified as extraverts, ambiverts or introverts on the Maudsley Personality Inventory looked at photographs rated as extravert, ambivert, or introvert for as long as they wished. It was hypothesized that there would be a tendency for Ss to look relatively longer at pictures congruent with their personality characteristic. Support for this hypothesis was found in a significant picture by personality interaction. Extraverts clearly looked longer at extravert pictures and introverts showed a very slight preference for introvert pictures. Ambivert pictures were looked at the longest by all groups. This high looking time for ambivert pictures and the small difference between the looking time at extravert and introvert pictures by introvert Ss is explained in terms of greater complexity of the ambivert and extravert pictures used in this experiment.
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This research was in part supported by Public Health Fellowship 1-F1-MH-21, 559-01 awarded the junior author by the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Bakan, P., Leckart, B.T. Attention, extraversion, and stimulus-personality congruence. Perception & Psychophysics 1, 355–357 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03215804
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