Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Psychology
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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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18567
Recommended Citation
Seiser, Virginia, "Extraversion-Introversion and Sensitivity to Nonverbal Cues" (1982). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 3220.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.3211
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