Malte Wöstmann, Julia Erb, Jens Kreitewolf, and Jonas Obleser conducted a large-scale online study to explore the relationship between listeners’ personality and hearing-in-noise. In a large sample (N = 1,103), they found that BIG‑5 personality dimensions neuroticism and extraversion explained dissociations of scores on established subjective versus objective hearing-in-noise tests. This research was supported by the International Hearing Foundation.
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