Extraversion may be less common than we think Date: April 6, 2015 Source: Association for Psychological Science Summary: New research documents the 'friendship paradox' within the emerging social ...

A new study published in Telematics and Informatics has found that certain personality traits—particularly extraversion, narcissism, and histrionic tendencies—are linked to a greater desire ...

Last week, we began an important conversation on how our personalities shape our mental health and the way we experience life ...

As introversion / extraversion has regularly shown as having a substantial heritable (genetic) component (see Nettle, 2008), this finding, of relatively even ratios of introverts to extraverts ...

Recent increases in the accessibility of neuroscience methods have accelerated our understanding of the relationship between extraversion and neural processing of rewards. An issue that has remained ...

Do opposites attract or do birds of a feather flock together? Evidence from academic research provides an answer.

Lifelong singles tend to be less outgoing, less conscientious, and less open than those who have been in long-term ...

The benefits of extraversion have been reported before, including those of “forced extraversion,” but usually only for brief intervals. In one study, train-riders were asked to talk to ...

As it is common to over-pay for acquisitions, they are a great way to test the consequences of extraversion. A CEO with the firm’s best interest at heart will be very selective about acquisitions and ...

In seeking to maintain their power, many African regimes rely on strategies of extraversion, converting their dependent relations with the external world into domestic resources and authority. This ...