Evidence for a specific link between the personality trait of absorption and idiopathic environmental intolerance.
Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part A 2008 Michael Witthöft, Fred Rist, Josef Bailer
Absorption as a personality trait refers to the predisposition to get deeply immersed in sensory (e.g., smells, sounds, pictures) or mystical experiences, that is, to experience altered states of consciousness. Absorption is markedly related to constructs openness to experiences, hypnotic suggestibility, imagination, and dissociation. Although absorption was hypothesized to be a risk factor for...