Hearing and personality: A review

The personality of individuals has been shown to interact with their auditory system in a variety of ways. Subjects with different personalities may differ in their physiological responses to sounds, in their perception of sounds and in the way in which noise influences their performance of a variety of tasks. Severe deafness appears to influence the personality of patients, and fairly characteristic changes are found in specific auditory disorders. The annoyance caused by a variety of noises is influenced by the person's personality and in the past a noise annoyance scale has been used as a measure of neuroticism.