@ARTICLE{10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00184, AUTHOR={Furnes, Desire and Berg, Hege and Mitchell, Rachel M. and Paulmann, Silke}, TITLE={Exploring the Effects of Personality Traits on the Perception of Emotions From Prosody}, JOURNAL={Frontiers in Psychology}, VOLUME={10}, YEAR={2019}, URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00184}, DOI={10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00184}, ISSN={1664-1078}, ABSTRACT={It has repeatedly been argued that individual differences in personality influence emotion processing, but findings from both the facial and vocal emotion recognition literature are contradictive, suggesting a lack of reliability across studies. To explore this relationship further in a more systematic manner using the Big Five Inventory, we designed two studies employing different research paradigms. Study 1 explored the relationship between personality traits and vocal emotion recognition accuracy while Study 2 examined how personality traits relate to vocal emotion recognition speed. The combined results did not indicate a pairwise linear relationship between self-reported individual differences in personality and vocal emotion processing, suggesting that the continuously proposed influence of personality characteristics on vocal emotion processing might have been overemphasized previously.} }