  a highly sensitive person (hsp) is a person having the innate trait of high sensory processing sensitivity (or innate sensitiveness as carl jung originally coined it * jung, c. (1913). 'the theory of psychoanalysis'. cw 4. * ______ (1916). 'psychoanalysis and neurosis'. cw 4.aron, e., aron a., and jagiellowicz, j. (2012) sensory processing sensitivity: a review in the light of the evolution of biological responsivity. personality and social psychology review, 16, 262â282.). according to elaine n. aron and colleagues as well as other researchers, highly sensitive people, who compose of about a fifth of the population (equal numbers in men and women), may process sensory data much more deeply and thoroughly due to a biological difference in their nervous systems.ketay, s., hedden, t., aron, a., aron, e., markus, h., & gabrieli, g. (2007, january). the personality/temperament trait of high sensitivity: fmri evidence for independence of cultural context in attentional processing. poster presented at the annual meeting of the society for personality and social psychology, memphis, tn. summary by aron (2006): "a functional study comparing brain activation in asians recently arrived in the united states to european-americans found that in the nonsensitive, different areas were activated according to culture during a difficult discrimination task known to be affected by culture, but culture had no impact on the activated areas for highly sensitive subjects, as if they were able to view the stimuli without cultural influence." this is a specific trait, with key consequences for how we view people, that in the past has often been confused with innate shyness, social anxiety problems, inhibitedness, social phobia and innate fearfulness,kagan, j. 1994 galenâs prophecy. new york: basic books. and introversion.aron, elaine and aron, arthur. 1997. sensory-processing sensitivity and its relation to introversion and emotionality, journal of personality and social psychology. aug. 1997 vol. 73, n
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