Koelsch, S;
Enge, J;
Jentschke, S;
(2012)
Cardiac signatures of personality.
PLoS One
, 7
(2)
, Article e31441. 10.1371/journal.pone.0031441.
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Abstract
There are well-established relations between personality and the heart, as evidenced by associations between negative emotions on the one hand, and coronary heart disease or chronic heart failure on the other. However, there are substantial gaps in our knowledge about relations between the heart and personality in healthy individuals. Here, we investigated whether amplitude patterns of the electrocardiogram (ECG) correlate with neurotisicm, extraversion, agreeableness, warmth, positive emotion, and tender-mindedness as measured with the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness (NEO) personality inventory. Specifically, we investigated (a) whether a cardiac amplitude measure that was previously reported to be related to flattened affectivity (referred to as Eκ values) would explain variance of NEO scores, and (b) whether correlations can be found between NEO scores and amplitudes of the ECG.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cardiac signatures of personality. |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0031441 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031441 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 Koelsch et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3283631 This work was supported by the Freie University Berlin and by the Max Planck Society and by a grant from the German Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF, grant-nr. 01EZ1024A, awareded to SK). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. |
| Keywords: | Adolescent, Adult, Electrocardiography, Extraversion (Psychology), Female, Heart, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Personality, Personality Inventory, Regression Analysis, Young Adult |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1342820 |
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