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Do they also like each other a little

less, at least for the duration of the

fight? An illuminating study by the psychologist

William Graziano suggests

that the answer to this question might

be yes. Graziano divided a group of

sixty-one male students into teams to

play a simulated football game. Half

the participants were assigned to a cooperative

game, in which they were

told, “Football is useful to us because to

be successful in football, team members

have to work well together.” The other

half were assigned to a game emphasizing

competition between teams. Each

student was then shown slides and fabricated

biographical information about

his teammates and his competitors on

the other team, and asked to rate how

he felt about the other players.

The differences between introverts

and extroverts were remarkable. The

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