ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6509-8676

Date of Award

2024

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

MA in Clinical Psychology

Department

Psychology

First Advisor

William Chaplin

Second Advisor

Melissa Peckins

Abstract

Similarity between personality traits has been observed to be predictive of preference and desirability in social relationships in various situations. Much of the research has approached detecting personality similarity on a trait-specific level using the Five Factor Model of personality or more recently by grouping individual personalities into clustered profiles using latent profile analysis. This study of 93 participants took a person-centered approach by detecting individual differences between participants’ personality profiles and target person profiles using Euclidean distance as a dissimilarity index. We then proposed attention as a mediating factor behind the observed association between personality similarity and preference. Using this person-centered approach, we replicated previously observed outcomes that similarity between personalities predicted self-rated preferences. Attention, measured through fixation counts and dwell time using eye-tracking technology, was also predictive of preference. However, there was no observed mediating effect of attention on the association between personality similarity and preference.

Download

Included in

Psychology Commons

Share

COinS