quiet-the-power-of-introverts-in-a-world-that-cant-stop-talking-susan-cain

Lieberman and his team asked a select
group of participants to listen to a
tape of the conversations they’d just
had—before filling out the questionnaire.
In this group, he found, there
was no difference between introverts
and extroverts in their ability to read
social cues. Why?
The answer is that the subjects who
listened to the tape recording were able
to decode social cues without having to
do anything else at the same time. And introverts
are pretty fine decoders, according
to several studies predating the
Lieberman experiments. One of these
studies actually found that introverts
were better decoders than extroverts.
But these studies measured how well
introverts observe social dynamics, not
how well they participate in them. Participation
places a very different set of
demands on the brain than observing
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