Talk:Highly sensitive person
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[edit] Original research?
This subject seems to me as an original research I have barely found any other references on the Web apart from the Author Aron Elain herself ? so does it really belong here ? as WP is to ban original research ? --Khalid hassani 12:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- No, it is not original research, just ongoing research. However, the term HSP is relatively new. Pavlov's work on conditioning to pain and extreme stimuli found a broad range of sensitivity with a few clusters. Jung and contemporaries used Pavlov's work when differentiating between introverted and extroverted cognitive types (not personality types). As the introverted and extroverted cognitive types have become polluted with the introverted and extroverted personality type terms used in popular culture, new and more accurate terms are being developed. Dr. Aron's description is one of the more popular descriptions of the trait since it has a positive 'spin', unlike names like "cognitiave or emotional hypersensitivity" which may have a negative social stigma. Clinicians and academics are rapidly adopting this new descriptive name. ~ Bwagstaff 05:18, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Other languages
There appears to be other research in Germany and The Netherlands, independently of Dr. Aron's. My German and Dutch, however, isn't good enough to decipher it.
If you could provide some links, I am a native Dutch speaker and can probably also decipher most German. -- Manuzhai
Can you provide the Dutch references? -- Renato
I am HSP myself and the info seems to be correct. There is not much known about HSP anyway since the psychological idea of it is quite new. And that's one of the problems with recognition and acceptance of it in the first place. Just like Whiplash was 15 years ago... -- Jeroen
[edit] Future Additions
HSP's are something that I have quite a bit of experience, and I have read several of Dr. Aron's books. This page is something that I plan on expanding when I have time (in about 2 weeks) when I get back into the country. :) Sonrisasgrandes 18:09, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
What we really need is for a few experts and graduate students to go over this. I have modified the tag from 'expand' to 'expert', and sent out a few requests to experts for additional information and citations in clinical publications. Please feel free to ask around for additional expert information. Bwagstaff 05:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
"Dr. Aron's books cite studies involving other animals"... Would somebody with these books please include the citations? Seeing work other than the over-mentioned Dr. Aron would help with both verifiability and original research claims. ~ Bwagstaff 04:04, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Clarifications
It would be much easier to convey how this construct relates to the rest of the psychometric literature if research findings were phrased in terms of the measures used to classify a "highly sensitive person" (rather than in terms of a loosely-defined set of traits asserted to characterize a "highly sensitive person"). It looks like Aron and Aron developed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale for this sort of purpose, and some connections have been established in later literature. From Smolewska, McCabe, & Woody, 2006:
"...in contrast to Aron and Aron's finding that the scale is unidimensional, the current results support a three-component structure consisting of Aesthetic Sensitivity (AES), Low Sensory Threshold (LST), and Ease of Excitation (EOE). BIS activity was especially associated with the component of EOE. In addition, the components had different patterns of association with the "Big Five". More specifically, AES showed the strongest relation with Openness to Experience, while LST and EOE were found to be most closely associated with Neuroticism."
But it's more important to demonstrate some discriminant validity of HSP measures compared with other personality scales if one is to make the case that this construct doesn't just exist to sell books. 68.35.68.100 23:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
