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What’s the supporting scientific evidence for the idea of an introversion-extroversion personality trait?
by randomsearch 7y ago
What’s the supporting scientific evidence for the idea of an introversion-extroversion personality trait?
- 0xcde4c3db 7y agoExtraversion is one of the "Big Five" personality traits [1]. As far as I understand it, this means that it's been verified that it empirically exists as an independent-ish variable based on statistical analysis, but it's also not based on any underlying psychological or neurological model that's been independently validated. Also, the descriptions of this variable in Big Five literature don't always match popular ideas about what the term means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
- randomsearch 7y agoThat covers about all I’ve heard too. Wonder how solid / convincing / replicable that really is.