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rekindled the romantic side of their relationship,

she and Franklin replaced it

with something formidable: a union of

his confidence with her conscience.

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Fast-forward to our own time, where

we’ll meet another woman of similar

temperament, acting out of her own

sense of conscience. Dr. Elaine Aron is

a research psychologist who, since her

first scientific publication in 1997, has

singlehandedly reframed what Jerome

Kagan and others call high reactivity

(and sometimes “negativity” or “inhibition”).

She calls it “sensitivity,” and

along with her new name for the trait,

she’s transformed and deepened our understanding

of it.

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