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extroverts need to recharge when theydon’t socialize enough. If you’ve evertaken a Myers-Briggs personality test,which is based on Jung’s th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g andused by the majority <strong>of</strong> universities andFortune 100 <strong>com</strong>panies, then you mayalready be familiar with these ideas.But what do contemporary researchershave to say? I soon discovered thatthere is no all-purpose def<strong>in</strong>ition <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>troversionor extroversion; these arenot unitary categories, like “curlyhaired”or “sixteen-year-old,” <strong>in</strong> whicheveryone can agree on who qualifies for<strong>in</strong>clusion. For example, adherents <strong>of</strong>the Big Five school <strong>of</strong> personality psychology(which argues that human personalitycan be boiled down to fiveprimary traits) def<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong>troversion not<strong>in</strong> terms <strong>of</strong> a rich <strong>in</strong>ner life but as alack <strong>of</strong> qualities such as assertivenessand sociability. <strong>The</strong>re are almost as49/929

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