You don't have to become an extrovert to benefit from being a little more extroverted. The question is whether turning the ...

Personality traits may help predict whether a person will ignore others while using their smartphones, according to a study ...

Extraversion may be correlated with some specific linguistic indicators, according to a new meta-analysis. For their recent systematic review, a team of researchers from the NTU School of Social ...

Social scientists have long known that, statistically speaking, our friends are probably more popular than we are. It's a simple matter of math: Because extraverted people tend to have more friends, ...

Ashley Lauretta is a journalist based in Austin, Texas. Her bylines can be found in WIRED, the Atlantic, SELF, ELLE, elemental, espnW, Men’s Journal and more. Ashley Lauretta is a journalist based in ...

There is strong evidence for genetic influences on personality traits. Interest in one such gene, the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) grew after an exon III polymorphism was associated with Novelty ...

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 ...