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noth<strong>in</strong>g happens. Through trial and erroryou learn that four is a nice numberand n<strong>in</strong>e is not. So the next time thenumber n<strong>in</strong>e flashes across your screen,you know not to press that button.Except that sometimes people pressthe button for the bad numbers, evenwhen they should know better. Extroverts,especially highly impulsive extroverts,are more likely than <strong>in</strong>troverts tomake this mistake. Why? Well, <strong>in</strong> thewords <strong>of</strong> psychologists John Brebnerand Chris Cooper, who have shown thatextroverts th<strong>in</strong>k less and act faster onsuch tasks: <strong>in</strong>troverts are “geared to <strong>in</strong>spect”and extroverts “geared torespond.”But the more <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g aspect <strong>of</strong>this puzzl<strong>in</strong>g behavior is not what theextroverts do before they’ve hit thewrong button, but what they do after.When <strong>in</strong>troverts hit the number n<strong>in</strong>e478/929

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