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introverts “have a smaller response” … “break a leg to get there”
: Nettle, 
Personality:
What Makes You the Way You Are
.
17.
 
“This is great!”
: Michael J. Beatty et al., “Communication Apprehension as Temperamental
Expression: A Communibiological Paradigm,” 
Communication Monographs
65 (1988):
reporting that people with high communication apprehension “value moderate … success
less than do those low in the trait.”
18.
 
“Everyone assumes that it’s good to accentuate positive emotions”
: Richard Howard
interview with the author, November 17, 2008. Howard also pointed to this interesting take
by Roy F. Baumeister et al., “How Emotions Facilitate and Impair Self-Regulation,” in
Handbook of Emotion Regulation
, edited by James J. Gross (New York: Guilford Press, 2009),
422: “positive emotion can sweep aside the normal restraints that promote civilized
behavior.”
19.
 
Another disadvantage of buzz
: Note that this sort of risk-taking behavior is in what Daniel
Nettle (
Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are
, 83) calls “the shared territory” of

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extroversion and another personality trait, conscientiousness. In some cases
conscientiousness is the better predictor.
20.
 
extroverts are more likely than introverts to be killed while driving …
remarry
: Nettle,
Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are
. See also Timo Lajunen, “Personality and
Accident Liability: Are Extroversion, Neuroticism and Psychoticism Related to Traffic and
Occupational Fatalities?” 
Personality and Individual Differences
31, no. 8 (2001): 1365–73.
21.
 
extroverts are more prone than introverts to overconfidence
: Peter Schaefer,
“Overconfidence and the Big Five,” 
Journal of Research in Personality
38, no. 5 (2004): 473–
80.
22.