People with obsessive–compulsive personality, in marked contrast to histrionics, “miss the forest for the trees.” These persons focus so much on details that they miss the overall pattern; for example, a person with this disorder may decide on the basis of a few flaws in another person’s performance that the other person has failed, even though the flaws may have simply represented some variations in an overall successful performance. Further, in contrast to histrionics, people with obsessive–compulsive personality disorder tend to minimize subjective experiences. Thus, they deprive themselves of some of the richness of life and of access to feelings as a source of information that enhances the significance of important events