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make group decisions, extroverts woulddo well to listen to <strong>in</strong>troverts—especiallywhen they see problems ahead.In the wake <strong>of</strong> the 2008 crash, a f<strong>in</strong>ancialcatastrophe caused <strong>in</strong> part byuncalculated risk-tak<strong>in</strong>g and bl<strong>in</strong>dnessto threat, it became fashionable to speculatewhether we’d have been better <strong>of</strong>fwith more women and fewer men—orless testosterone—on Wall Street. Butmaybe we should also ask what mighthave happened with a few more <strong>in</strong>trovertsat the helm—and a lot lessdopam<strong>in</strong>e.Several studies answer this questionimplicitly. Kellogg School <strong>of</strong> ManagementPr<strong>of</strong>essor Camelia Kuhnen hasfound that the variation <strong>of</strong> a dopam<strong>in</strong>eregulat<strong>in</strong>ggene (DRD4) associated witha particularly thrill-seek<strong>in</strong>g version <strong>of</strong>extroversion is a strong predictor <strong>of</strong>f<strong>in</strong>ancial risk-tak<strong>in</strong>g. By contrast,467/929

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