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Personality and motor activity: a psychophysiological perspective

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The view that differences in personality are influenced by constitutional, genetically determined predispositions is one which is gathering increasing support from a variety of sources1,2. This notion is endorsed by evidence from biometric analyses of personality inventories which have examined the heritability of personality traits3, from biochemical assays which link differences in personality to differences in neurohormonal and catecholamine activity4 and from psychophysiological measures which ascribe differences in personality to differences in physiological arousal systems5. With regard to psychophysiological studies of personality, the research has largely focused on individual differences in the effects of sensory stimulation on autonomic and cortical activity. Psycho-physiological investigation of individual differences in the expression of motor behaviour has not been so intensively pursued, and research in this area is quite fragmented. However, the emergence of impulsiveness as a fundamental personality factor6,7 that is relevant to the conceptually similar dimensions of extraversion, Type A behaviour and sensation-seeking behaviour, has fostered a growing recognition of the importance of individual differences in motor performance for the understanding of personality. An analysis of individual differences in the expression of motor activity, by means of psychophysiological techniques, may serve to focus the neurological bases of differences along those personality dimensions.

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