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categories quite separate from introversion.

To them, these traits may fall under

“openness to experience,” “conscientiousness,”

and “neuroticism.”

My use of the word introvert is deliberately

broader, drawing on the insights

of Big Five psychology, but also

encompassing Jungian thinking on the

introvert’s inner world of “inexhaustible

charm” and subjective experience;

Jerome Kagan’s research on high reactivity

and anxiety (see chapters 4 and

5); Elaine Aron’s work on sensory processing

sensitivity and its relationship

to conscientiousness, intense feeling,

inner-directedness, and depth of processing

(see chapter 6); and various research

on the persistence and concentration

that introverts bring to problemsolving,

much of it summarized wonderfully

in Gerald Matthews’s work (see

chapter 7).

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