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Personality Dispositions,” Annual Review of
Psychology 49 (1998): 229–58. In further
support of the premise that there truly is
such a thing as a fixed personality: We
know now that people who score as introverts
on personality tests tend to have different
physiologies and probably inherit
some different genes from those who measure
as extroverts. We also know that personality
traits predict an impressive variety
of important life outcomes. If you’re an extrovert,
you’re more likely to have a wide
circle of friends, have risky sex, get into accidents,
and excel at people-oriented work
like sales, human resources, and teaching.
(This doesn’t mean that you will do these
things—only that you’re more likely than
your typical introvert to do them.) If you’re
an introvert, you’re more likely to excel in
high school, in college, and in the land of
advanced degrees, to have smaller social
networks, to stay married to your original
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