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the shoes of their conversational partners:

How much did your partner like

you? How sensitive was she to you?

How encouraging?

Lieberman and his team compared

the answers and also listened in on the

conversations and made their own

judgments about how the parties felt

about each other. They found that the

extroverts were a lot more accurate

than the introverts in assessing whether

their partner liked talking to them.

These findings suggest that extroverts

are better at decoding social cues than

introverts. At first, this seems unsurprising,

writes Lieberman; it echoes the

popular assumption that extroverts are

better at reading social situations. The

only problem, as Lieberman showed

through a further twist to his experiment,

is that this assumption is not

quite right.

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