APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Look Away: Neuroticism and the Art of Dodging Self-Comparison
- Chynna Fliegelman
- Lauryn Lee
St. John's University - Gabriel Sanchez
St. John's University - Bora Meraj
St. John's University - Danielle Potts
St. John's University - William Chaplin
St. John's University
Abstract
This study used eye-tracking to examine how personality traits, particularly neuroticism, predict attention to positive and negative ipsative (self-to-self), normative (self-to-others), and expectation-based (self-to-expectation) evaluations of dependability and outgoingness. Participants showed greater attention to ipsative and expectation-based comparisons, while neuroticism predicted avoidance of self-threatening normative feedback.
Attention and Distraction
