News Finding: Introverts tended to report feeling less competent and more 'socially excluded" when they were solo.
Paper Finding: Both Mid-and High Extraversion groups were characterized by equal number of males and females (pairwise comparison p = .46).
News Context: Students who scored high on ratings for introversion didn't show any more enjoyment about their alone time than people who were extroverted. Introverts tended to report feeling less competent and more 'socially excluded" when they were solo. Some introverts reported that they didn't have many negative thoughts when they were sitting alone, but others did.
Paper Context: To quantify these observable differences, the P300 amplitude values were first derived by applying the ** The 3 groups did not differ on age, F (2,27) = 1.02, p = .38; however, as expected based on the NEO-PI manual and norms, the Low Extraversion group included significantly more females than the Mid-and High Extraversion groups (F (2,27) = 5.22, p = .01; pairwise comparison ps = .01). Both Mid-and High Extraversion groups were characterized by equal number of males and females (pairwise comparison p = .46). There was no difference between the groups with respect to the reaction times (RT) to either faces (F (2,27) = 1.54, p = .23) or flowers (F (2,27) = 2.01, p = .15).