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extroverts show up at a party, everyone

knows they are present.”

Your degree of extroversion seems to

influence how many friends you have,

in other words, but not how good a

friend you are. In a study of 132 college

students at Humboldt University in Berlin,

the psychologists Jens Aspendorf

and Susanne Wilpers set out to understand

the effect of different personality

traits on students’ relationships with

their peers and families. They focused

on the so-called Big Five traits:

Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness;

Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness;

and Emotional Stability.

(Many personality psychologists believe

that human personality can be boiled

down to these five characteristics.)

Aspendorf and Wilpers predicted that

the extroverted students would have an

easier time striking up new friendships

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