Extroverts, to the introverted, seem like weirdly gregarious, needy individuals who must be afflicted with terminal narcissism to be so joyful and outgoing. Introverts, to the extroverted, seem like weirdly private, hermit-like individuals who must be afflicted with some sort of horrible personality disorder or bad breath to be so insular and anti-social. As it turns out, introverts and extroverts merely have different brains, according to a recent study.
Using EEG scanners, researcher Inna Fishman, of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, California, has determined that your personality is as much your brain as it is your upbringing. Her study determined that “personality is not merely a psychology concept There’s some broader foundation for the behavior that you see … implicating that there are neural bases for different personality types.”
As it turns out, extroverts pay special attention to human faces, while to introverts, faces are just another aspect of the environment, no more worthy of special attention than cars or flowers. This would explain why extroverts crave human contact, while introverts can generally take it or leave it depending on their mood.
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