Relevance found between eye movement and personality

By Cho Hyun-eui

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have shown that there is a link between eye movement and personality.

A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that subjects whose eye movements were faster were also considered more impatient, according to Times.

Researchers conducted a series of tests. The first test involved subjects shifting their focus between two dots on a screen.

The second test involved subjects following commands on a screen. Subjects were informed in advance that command time can be 25 percent incorrect, allowing researchers to measure the time subjects were willing to wait for a command.

After two tests, subjects were asked to fill out a questionnaire that asked them to rate several variables, like how often they bought something impulsively.

Researchers assumed that there may be relevance between the ways the nervous system evaluates times and reward in controlling movements and in making decisions. They finally found that subjects whose eye movements were faster were also considered more impulsive.