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Extraversion is a relatively plastic personality dimension

• moehm 5y ago
  What is a 'plastic' personality dimension?
  • derefr 5y ago
    The parent commentor is not using any domain-specific jargon. They just mean the normal meaning of the abstract adjective "plastic": capable of being permanently deformed/bent/altered in a way that does not then return to baseline (contrast elastic). Conceptually derived from "plastic deformation" in physics: when you bend something enough that it doesn't bend back any more. Usages of this sense of "plastic" appear all across the English language: brain plasticity; plastic surgery; a cancerous neoplasm.
    • moehm 5y ago
      Thanks, I wasn't aware of this connotation.
    • raxxorrax 5y ago
      Isn't it also in general an euphemism for something being graspable?
• mkl 5y ago
  I don't think extroversion has much to do with it. I am very much an introvert but am totally fine with doing lectures to hundreds of people.
• bloqs 5y ago
  Extro*