37 college students were tested with the Eysenck Personality Inventory and a sentence-comprehension task to determine the relation between extraversion and rate of information processing. Orally presented sentences contained task instructions, and speech rate was varied by an electronic speech compressor. Errors with very rapid speech rate were unrelated to extraversion.
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