Look Away: Neuroticism and the Art of Dodging Self-Comparison

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.