The Surprising Truth About Introverts and Extroverts

Let's look at the social homeostasis circuit through the lens of what's commonly called

introversion and extroversion. Now, typically when we hear about introverts,

we think about the quiet person at the party or the person that doesn't want to go out at

all, and we think about an extrovert as somebody who's really social,

the so-called social butterfly, who enjoys social interactions, is really chatty,

is kind of life of the party type person. But actually, in the psychology

literature, that's not really the way it holds up. If we look at introversion

and extroversion through this lens of the social homeostatic set point, and we think about