Enacted Extraversion as a Well-Being Enhancing Strategy in Everyday Life: Testing Across Three, Week-Long Interventions

Lab-based experiments and observational data have consistently shown that extraverted behavior is associated with elevated levels of positive affect. This association typically holds regardless one’s dispositional level trait extraversion, individuals who enact behaviors in laboratory settings do not demonstrate costs acting counter-dispositionally. Inspired by these findings, we sought to test the efficacy week-long ‘enacted extraversion’ interventions. In three studies, participants engaged fifteen minutes assigned their daily life for five consecutive days. Studies 1 2 compared effect adding more introverted or (or a control task). Study 3 social non-social We assessed affect several indicators well-being during pretest (day 1) post-test 7), as well ‘in-the-moment’ (days 2-6). Participants reported greater when behaviors. did observe strong evidence suggest this was pronounced extraverts. The current research explores effects on other examines effectiveness (both socially non-socially) strategy.