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	Is It Better to Be an Introvert or an Extravert? Part 2 by Susan Dunn Momentum Coaching
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Is It Better to Be an Introvert or an Extravert?
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"Both extraverts and introverts benefit from social interaction," said the authors. "However, extraverted participants did not spend any more time in social situations than introverted participants but reported more pleasant affect even when alone, both indicating that some additional factor had to be accounting for their greater reported happiness."

They conclude the factor is extraverts are attracted by the rewards of warmth, affection and close emotional bonds. Occam's Razor would suggest a cleaner explanation: extraverts' propensity to self-report "happiness," i.e., a need to appear happy. If you're non-reflective I think you have more need to "appear" than to "be."

I'd also like a definition of a "social situation". If extraverts are reporting greater happiness at a Chamber Mixer, for instance, then I don't agree it's "warmth, affection and close emotional bonds" they're after.

It's a self-report instrument, and we know, for instance, people who are low in Emotional Intelligence also, be definition, don't know they are.

Nancy Fenn, TheIntrovertzCoach, says, "What concerns me most as an advocate for introverts is that the definitions of mental health, like many other things in our society, are controlled by the 70% majority who are extraverts.

"One wonders how people who have so little ability for self-reflection can understand the rich inner world of the introvert." Or, I might add, of happiness, or their own perception of it.

"Here's another example. The APA put out a news release on an article "An fMRI Study of Personality Influences on Brain Reactivity to Emotional Stimuli," Turhan Canli, Ph.D., et al, Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 115. The abstract says "extraverts show more brain reactivity to positive images than introverts."

They continue: "This study ... suggests that depending whether a person is extraverted or neurotic, his or her brain will amplify different experiences over others."

WAIT A MINUTE! WHERE DID THIS ˜NEUROTIC' COME FROM? I thought we were comparing extraverts and introverts. It is all the more insidious because it isn't labeled; they just subtly switch over to "neurotic" leaving the undiscerning reader to conclude that's the opposite of extravert.

Later on it says: "A personality measure was also used to help the researchers determine the participants' level of extraversion -- the tendency to be optimistic and sociable --and their level of neuroticism -- the tendency to be anxious, worried and socially insecure."

Isn't this apples and oranges again? Suddenly we are not comparing extraverts and introverts, we are comparing extraverts and neurotic people.

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