First Advisor

Chadwick Karr

Term of Graduation

Summer 1982

Date of Publication

7-1982

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.) in Psychology

Department

Psychology

Language

English

Subjects

Extraversion, Introversion, Body language

DOI

10.15760/etd.3211

Physical Description

1 online resource (2, v, 38 pages)

Abstract

Sixty-five college students completed the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (PONS) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The results did not support the hypothesis that introverts would be found to be relatively more sensitive to negative nonverbal cues than to positive cues, and that this difference would be greater for introverts than for extroverts. The outcome did not support predictions concerning the relationship between sensitivity to nonverbal communication and extroversion- introversion based on either Gray's fear-frustration hypothesis or Eysenck's general conditionability hypothesis of extroversion-introversion.

The results supported findings of earlier researchers that females are more sensitive to nonverbal cues than males, and that both sexes are somewhat more sensitive to negative cues than positive cues. Males were less accurate and more variable than females in their responses to the PONS. Response bias was found to be a small but statistically significant influence on PONS test results.

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