quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

Aron pondered this new insight, and
then set out to research this trait called
“sensitivity.” She came up mostly dry,
so she pored over the vast literature on
introversion, which seemed to be intimately
related: Kagan’s work on high-reactive
children, and the long line of experiments
on the tendency of introverts
to be more sensitive to social and sensory
stimulation. These studies gave her
glimpses of what she was looking for,
but Aron thought that there was a missing
piece in the emerging portrait of introverted
people.
“The problem for scientists is that we
try to observe behavior, and these are
things that you cannot observe,” she explains.
Scientists can easily report on
the behavior of extroverts, who can often
be found laughing, talking, or gesticulating.
But “if a person is standing
in the corner of a room, you can
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