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Lieberman and his team asked a selectgroup <strong>of</strong> participants to listen to atape <strong>of</strong> the conversations they’d justhad—before fill<strong>in</strong>g out the questionnaire.In this group, he found, therewas no difference between <strong>in</strong>trovertsand extroverts <strong>in</strong> their ability to readsocial cues. Why?<strong>The</strong> answer is that the subjects wholistened to the tape record<strong>in</strong>g were ableto decode social cues without hav<strong>in</strong>g todo anyth<strong>in</strong>g else at the same time. And <strong>in</strong>trovertsare pretty f<strong>in</strong>e decoders, accord<strong>in</strong>gto several studies predat<strong>in</strong>g theLieberman experiments. One <strong>of</strong> thesestudies actually found that <strong>in</strong>trovertswere better decoders than extroverts.But these studies measured how well<strong>in</strong>troverts observe social dynamics, nothow well they participate <strong>in</strong> them. Participationplaces a very different set <strong>of</strong>demands on the bra<strong>in</strong> than observ<strong>in</strong>g670/929

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