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Personality Dispositions,” Annual Review <strong>of</strong>Psychology 49 (1998): 229–58. In furthersupport <strong>of</strong> the premise that there truly issuch a th<strong>in</strong>g as a fixed personality: Weknow now that people who score as <strong>in</strong>trovertson personality tests tend to have differentphysiologies and probably <strong>in</strong>heritsome different genes from those who measureas extroverts. We also know that personalitytraits predict an impressive variety<strong>of</strong> important life out<strong>com</strong>es. If you’re an extrovert,you’re more likely to have a widecircle <strong>of</strong> friends, have risky sex, get <strong>in</strong>to accidents,and excel at people-oriented worklike sales, human resources, and teach<strong>in</strong>g.(This doesn’t mean that you will do theseth<strong>in</strong>gs—only that you’re more likely thanyour typical <strong>in</strong>trovert to do them.) If you’rean <strong>in</strong>trovert, you’re more likely to excel <strong>in</strong>high school, <strong>in</strong> college, and <strong>in</strong> the land <strong>of</strong>advanced degrees, to have smaller socialnetworks, to stay married to your orig<strong>in</strong>al909/929

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