Definition of extroversion
: the act, state, or habit of being predominantly concerned with and obtaining gratification from what is outside the self
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extraversion
Updated on: 15 Apr 2018
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Each volunteer was also given a standard personality test that rates the five main components of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
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Cambridge Analytica then used the data to build a model predicting the psychology of those people, on metrics such as neuroticism, political views, and extroversion.
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Affiliative and self-enhancing humor are both linked to extroversion.
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If not the last word in extroversion, there was nonetheless electric quick playing and a tender sweetness in the final bars that proved especially poignant.
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The animals were individually assessed by graduate students in the earlier study, and in the latest by Tanzanian field assistants, on personality traits like agreeableness, extroversion, depression, aggression and self-control.
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The Five Factor Theory of Personality is best known by the acronym OCEAN that stands for openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
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Churchill’s flamboyant extroversion, his skills with speech, and the urgency of a desperate wartime defense led him to a communal triumph that did much to shape our world today.
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Churchill’s flamboyant extroversion, his skills with speech, and the urgency of a desperate wartime defense led him to a communal triumph that did much to shape our world today.
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: the act, state, or habit of being predominantly concerned with and obtaining gratification from what is outside the self — compare introversion
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