Heartbeats Can Affect Personality
by Aspects of one’s personality can be revealed in an instant through a medical examination. One study found that a person’s heart rate associated with certain personality traits they have.
People who have certain heart rate is higher neuroticism its properties. That is, these people tend to have more negative emotions such as anxiety and depression. These people also tend to have positive emotions such as feeling happy and a little more cheerful.
Heart rate is affected by the heart’s electrical activity and can also be used to predict the friendliness, personality traits that describe how much compassion or empathy for anyone.
The study, published the journal PLoS ONE involved 425 students aged 18-33 years. The students completed a personality test and measured the activity of heart rate using electrocardiography (ECG).
“The heart rate can be used to measure personality with more objective than current methods. Personality is usually known to use psychological test. But these tests often lead to bias because people can choose the answer they think is more acceptable. For example, people may exaggerate its own , “says Stefan Koelsch, professor of biological psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The researchers also can use the heart rate to determine the characteristics of certain emotional disorders such as depression, heart disease and blood pressure. Someday, researchers hope your heart rate can help diagnose mental disorders or identify people at risk of mental disorders.
“Personality traits can affect the heart in several ways, either through direct neural connections between the brain and heart, through the breathing pattern or the release of certain hormones,” says Koelsch.
Previously, Koelsch and his colleagues have found an association between the pattern of electrical activity of the heart with a cool personality, namely the tendency to not show emotion in front of others. In his research, a similar pattern seen in people who score high in neuroticism and personality scored lower on positive emotions.
Koelsch suspect that certain electrical patterns in the heart can trigger some diseases. However, further studies are needed to confirm this conjecture. Other studies have found an association between poor emotional conditions such as depression and anxiety with heart disease and high blood pressure.
“Going forward, we want to see whether certain interventions such as listening to music or watching a movie will change a person’s emotional state and the heart’s electrical activity,” said Koelsch.
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