Extroverts May Be More Exhausted Than Introverts 3 Hours Later

a post by Robby Berman for Big Think

A fair amount of research has been done involving what psychologists call the Big Five personality traits:

1. openness to experience,
2. conscientiousness,
3. extroversion,
4. agreeableness, and
5. neuroticism.

It’s been found the extroversion is a trait that has an immediate positive outcome. Unlike introverts, extroverts get happy when they’re socializing, though even the former can get there, too, just by pretending to be extroverted. New research suggests, though, that extroverts may pay a price for their fun, a price that introverts don’t pay.

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