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make group decisions, extroverts would
do well to listen to introverts—especially
when they see problems ahead.
In the wake of the 2008 crash, a financial
catastrophe caused in part by
uncalculated risk-taking and blindness
to threat, it became fashionable to speculate
whether we’d have been better off
with more women and fewer men—or
less testosterone—on Wall Street. But
maybe we should also ask what might
have happened with a few more introverts
at the helm—and a lot less
dopamine.
Several studies answer this question
implicitly. Kellogg School of Management
Professor Camelia Kuhnen has
found that the variation of a dopamineregulating
gene (DRD4) associated with
a particularly thrill-seeking version of
extroversion is a strong predictor of
financial risk-taking. By contrast,
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