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13. highly empathic: Aron and Aron,“Sensory-Process<strong>in</strong>g Sensitivity.” See alsoAron, “Revisit<strong>in</strong>g Jung’s Concept <strong>of</strong> InnateSensitiveness.” See also Aron, <strong>The</strong> HighlySensitive Person. And see the follow<strong>in</strong>g fMRIstudies: Acevedo, “Sensory Process<strong>in</strong>g Sensitivityand Neural Responses to Strangers’Emotional States.” And see Jadzia Jagiellowicz,“Faster and More Intense: EmotionProcess<strong>in</strong>g and Attentional Mechanisms <strong>in</strong>Individuals with Sensory Process<strong>in</strong>g Sensitivity.”Note that many personality psychologistswho subscribe to the “Big 5” theory<strong>of</strong> personality associate empathy not withsensitivity (a construct that is ga<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g attention,but is relatively less well knownthan the Big 5), but with a trait known as“Agreeableness” and even extroversion.Aron’s work does not challenge these associations,but expands them. One <strong>of</strong> themost valuable aspects <strong>of</strong> Aron’s work is868/929

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