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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE published: 11 September 2014 HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00718 “Some like it hot”: spectators who score high on the personality trait openness enjoy the excitement of hearing dancers breathing without music Corinne Jola 1,2 *, Frank E. Pollick2 and Beatriz Calvo-Merino3,4 1 Division of Psychology, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, UK 2 School of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 3 Department of Psychology, City University London, London, UK 4 Department of Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Edited by: Music is an integral part of dance. Over the last 10 years, however, dance stimuli (without Catherine (Kate) J. Stevens, music) have been repeatedly used to study action observation processes, increasing University of Western Sydney, Australia our understanding of the influence of observer’s physical abilities on action perception. Reviewed by: Moreover, beyond trained skills and empathy traits, very little has been investigated on Cosimo Urgesi, University of Udine, how other observer or spectators’ properties modulate action observation and action Italy preference. Since strong correlations have been shown between music and personality Alessio Avenanti, Alma Mater traits, here we aim to investigate how personality traits shape the appreciation of dance Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy when this is p