Whereas just 50% of the general population is extroverted, 96% of managers and executives display extroverted personalities. And the higher you go in a corporate hierarchy, the more likely you are to find highly extroverted individuals. The chart below, based on a 2009 study of 4,000 managers across U.S. industries, shows the percentage of managers at each level who display high levels of extro...

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Complexity theory has come a long way in the thirty years since its inception. It has identiied some of the most fundamental and deep problems related to computation, it has developed a powerful methodology for attacking them, and it is broadly considered as one of the most challenging mathematical frontiers. Considered as a pure mathematical discipline in the pursuit of mathematical insight an...

This paper did a survey on 162 college students, with an aim to find out the role of consumers’ personality in their trust in the website as far as the online word-of-mouth is concerned. All the data collected are analyzed by SPSS 15.0 and LISREL. It shows that there is a significant difference between the introverted consumers and the extroverted consumers viewing their attitude towards online...

anxiety is an unpleasant state of inner turmoil. anxiety is a feeling of fear, worry and uneasiness, usually generalized and unfocused as an overreaction to a situation that is only subjectively seen as menacing. the trait of extroversion-introversion is a central dimension of human personality theories. extraversion and introversion are typically viewed as a single continuum. thus, to be high ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular personality test, was used to profile the personalities of in-patient alcoholics/substance-use disorder patients who had, and those who did not have, a concurrent affective disorder diagnosis. The MBTI divides individuals into eight categories: Extroverts and Introverts, Sensors and Intuitives, Thinkers and Feelers, and Judgers and Perceivers. A...

This paper reconceptualizes the impact of US finance on European banking as a process ‘extroverted financialisation’. is commonly associated with rise ‘market-based banking’ (MBB). While MBB exposes how commercial has been deeply transformed by disintermediation and borrowing from wholesale markets, concept struggles to capture distinct imperatives this process, its uneven nature. By contrast, ...

Following the law of attraction in human‐human interaction, this paper examines the effects of a robot’s personality and a human’s personality in various human‐ robot interactions. This study was conducted using robots that were programmed to mimic both extroverted and introverted personality types, as well as humans who were classified as having introverted, extroverted or...

Adults typically address infants in a special speech mode called infant-directed speech (IDS). IDS is characterized by a special prosody (i.e., higher pitched, slower and hyperarticulated) and a special lexicon ("baby talk"). Here we investigated which areas of the adult brain are involved in processing IDS, which aspects of IDS (prosodic or lexical) are processed, to what extent the experience...