Abstract
It has repeatedly been argued that individual differences in personality influence emotion processing, but findings from both the facial and vocal emotion recognition literature are contradictive, suggesting a lack of reliability across studies. To explore this relationship further in a more systematic manner using the Big Five Inventory, we designed two studies employing different research paradigms. Study 1 explored the relationship between personality traits and vocal emotion recognition accuracy while Study 2 examined how personality traits relate to vocal emotion recognition speed. The combined results did not indicate a pairwise linear relationship between self-reported individual differences in personality and vocal emotion processing, suggesting that the continuously proposed influence of personality characteristics on vocal emotion processing might have been overemphasized previously.
Highlights
One of the most influential hypotheses examining differences in emotion processing, the trait-congruency hypothesis, argues that stable personality traits influence the precision of an individual’s emotion processing
Both the vocal and facial emotion recognition literature has explored the relationship between different personality traits and emotion recognition accuracy
Vocal Emotion Recognition To control for stimulus and response biases, raw hit rates were transformed into unbiased hit rates (Hu scores; Wagner, 1993)
Summary
One of the most influential hypotheses examining differences in emotion processing, the trait-congruency hypothesis, argues that stable personality traits influence the precision of an individual’s emotion processing (see Rusting, 1998 for review). Evidence points toward some form of relationship between selective emotion processing and certain personality characteristics, the literature from recent decades is contradictive (Matsumoto et al, 2000). Both the vocal and facial emotion recognition literature has explored the relationship between different personality traits and emotion recognition accuracy ( far more emphasis has been put on detecting emotions from faces). In the facial emotion literature, some studies have found a link between better emotion recognition and openness to experience and conscientiousness (Matsumoto et al, 2000).
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