Highly Sensitive Child Notes
Author’s Note (references for ideas mentioned in Author’s Note as being from Chapter One
are in endnotes for Chapter One)[MS p. 1]

wealth of scientific research: For a thorough summary through 2011, see Aron, E.,
Aron, A., & Jagiellowicz, J. (2012). Sensory processing sensitivity: A review inthe light of the evolution of biological responsivity. Personality and Social
Psychology Review, 16, 262-282. As new research becomes available, it will belisted at www.hsperson.com.

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as having four aspects: Aron. E. (2010) Psychotherapy and highly sensitive
person: Improving outcomes for that minority of people who are the majority ofclients. NY: Routledge.

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A study by Jadzia Jagiellowicz:Jagiellowicz, J., Xu, X., Aron, A., Aron, E., Cao,G., Feng, T., & Weng, X. (2011). Sensory processing sensitivity and neural
responses to changes in visual scenes. Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, 6, 38-47.

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In another study, by ourselves and others: Aron, A., Ketay, S., Hedden, T., Aron,E., Markus, H. R., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2010). Temperament trait of sensory
processing sensitivity moderates cultural differences in neural response, Special

Issue on Cultural Neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5,219-226.

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Research by Bianca Acevedo: Acevedo, B., Aron, A., Aron, E. (2010). Associationof sensory processing sensitivity when perceiving positive and negative emotionalstates. Presented at APA, San Diego.FIX?

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called the seat of consciousness Craig, A. D. (2009). How do you feel—now?
The anterior insula and human awareness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10, 5970.

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As for experimental evidence that HSPs: Gerstenberg, F. (2012). Sensoryprocessing sensitivity predicts performance on a visual search task followed by anincrease in perceived stress. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 496-500.

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Theodore Wachs: Wachs, T. D. (2013) Relation of maternal personality toperceptions of environmental chaos in the home. Journal of Environmental
Psychology, 34, 1-9.

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Without emotions as motivators: Baumeister, F. R., Vohs, D. K., DeWall, N. C.,& Zhang, L. (2007). How emotion shapes behavior: Feedback, anticipation, andreflection, rather than direct causation. Personality and Social Psychology
Review, 11(2), 167-203.

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a series of experiments and brain activation studies: Jagiellowicz, J. (2012). The
relationship between the temperament trait of sensory processing sensitivity andemotional reactivity. Doctoral Dissertation at Stony Brook University, New
York. (Retrieved fromhttp://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/bitstream/handle/1951/59701/Jagiellowicz_gr
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mirror neuron system: For a more complete understanding of mirror neurons, see
Iacoboni, M. (2008) Mirroring people: The new science of how we connect withothers. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

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what we found: Aron, E., Aron, A., & Davies, K. (2005). Adult shyness:
The interaction of temperamental sensitivity and a negative childhood
environment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 181-197.

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Jay Belsky and Michael Pluess: For example, Belsky, J. & Pluess, M. (2009).
Beyond diathesis stress: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences.
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taking in the good ones more: Pluess, M., & Belsky, J. (2012, October 1).
Vantage sensitivity: Individual differences in response to positive experiences.
Psychological Bulletin. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0030196

[MS p. 10]“Vantage Sensitivity”: See above, Pluess & Belsky, Vantage sensitivity.

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Stephen Suomi: Suomi, S. J. (1987). Genetic and maternal contributions toindividual differences in Rhesus monkey biobehavioral development. In N.
Krasnogor E. M. Blass, M. A. Hofer, & W. P. Swothervon (eds.),
Psychobiological aspects of behavioral development (pp.397-419). New York:
Academic Press. Also Suomi, S. J. (1991). Up-tight and laid-back monkeys:
Individual differences in the response to social challenges. In S. Brauth, W. Hall,& R.Dooling (Eds.), Plasticity of development (pp. 27–56). Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press. Also Suomi, S. J. (1997), Early determinants of behaviour: Evidence fromprimate studies. British Medical Bulletin, 53, 170-184.

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Bestows many benefits: see above, Pluess & Belsky, “Vantage Sensitivity;”
regarding the same findings in monkeys, Jedema, H. P., Gianaros, P. J., Greer, P.
J., Kerr, D. D., Liu, S., Higley, J. D., et al. (2009). Cognitive impact of genetic
variation of the serotonin transporter in primates is associated with differences inbrain morphology rather than serotonin neurotransmission. Molecular Psychiatry,15, 512-522.

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done in Denmark by Cecilie Licht and others: Licht, C., Mortensen, E. L., &Knudsen, G. M. (2011). Association between sensory processing sensitivity andthe serotonin transporter polymorphism 5-HTTLPR short/short genotype.

Biological Psychiatry, 69, supplement for Society of Biological Psychiatry
Convention and Annual Meeting, abstract 510.

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Chen and others in China: Chen, C., Chen, C., Moyzis, R., Stern, H., He, Q., Li,H., . . . & Dong, Q. (2011). Contributions of dopamine-related genes andenvironmental factors to Highly Sensitive Personality: A multi-step neuronalsystem-level approach. PLoS ONE. 6:e21636.

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actual list is now over 100: Wolf, M., Van Doorn, S., & Weissing, F. J. (2008).
Evolutionary emergence of responsive and unresponsive personalities. PNAS,105(41), 15825.

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Max Wolf in Germany: See above, Wolf, Van Doorn, & Weissing, Evolutionaryemergence.
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Franziska Borries: Borries, F. (2012). Do the “Highly Sensitive” exist? A
taxometric investigation of the personal construct of sensory-processing
sensitivity. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Bielefeld, Germany .