A team of psychologists led by Jason Huang of Michigan State University believes they have identified a new unit of personality, something they refer to as the “other-contingent extravert.” This is ...

Recent research evidence suggests that while extraversion is predictive of many positive social outcomes, it may not be extraversion itself that matters. Instead, it may be possession of social skills ...

Find a hobby you'll enjoy—and stick to—by understanding which personality type you are: extroverted, agreeable, open, ...

Researchers still have a lot to learn about the roots of introversion and extroversion, and not all of what they’ve uncovered so far has fully filtered down to the public. When it comes to ...

Are people who stay single less extraverted than people who marry? That's a question that's been posed in the comments section of this blog a number of times. A relevant study suggests that the answer ...

New research documents the 'friendship paradox' within the emerging social networks of a new class of MBA students, showing that extroverted people tend to be disproportionately represented in social ...

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Personality traits help to understand why some people are physically active and others are not. A new study from the Gerontology Research Center and the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the ...

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