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each teach<strong>in</strong>g session. <strong>The</strong>y also ratedhow generally extroverted the subjectsappeared, based on their recordedvoices and body language.<strong>The</strong>n Lippa did the same th<strong>in</strong>g withactual extroverts and <strong>com</strong>pared the results.He found that although the lattergroup came across as more extroverted,some <strong>of</strong> the pseudo-extroverts were surpris<strong>in</strong>glyconv<strong>in</strong>c<strong>in</strong>g. It seems that most<strong>of</strong> us know how to fake it to some extent.Whether or not we’re aware thatthe length <strong>of</strong> our strides and theamount <strong>of</strong> time we spend talk<strong>in</strong>g andsmil<strong>in</strong>g mark us as <strong>in</strong>troverts and extroverts,we know it unconsciously.Still, there’s a limit to how much wecan control our self-presentation. Thisis partly because <strong>of</strong> a phenomenoncalled behavioral leakage, <strong>in</strong> which ourtrue selves seep out via unconsciousbody language: a subtle look away at a599/929

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