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attribute about fifteen motivations to

that person. But you don’t really know

what’s going on inside.”

Yet inner behavior was still behavior,

thought Aron, even if it was difficult to

catalog. So what is the inner behavior

of people whose most visible feature is

that when you take them to a party

they aren’t very pleased about it? She

decided to find out.

First Aron interviewed thirty-nine

people who described themselves as being

either introverted or easily overwhelmed

by stimulation. She asked

them about the movies they liked, their

first memories, relationships with parents,

friendships, love lives, creative

activities, philosophical and religious

views. Based on these interviews, she

created a voluminous questionnaire

that she gave to several large groups of

people. Then she boiled their responses

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