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personality traits of effective call-center employees
: Interview with the author, February
13, 2007.
49.
 
if you were staffing an investment bank
: Interview with the author, July 7, 2010.
50.
 
men who are shown erotic pictures
: Camelia Kuhnen et al., “Nucleus Accumbens
Activation Mediates the Influence of Reward Cues on Financial Risk Taking,” 
NeuroReport
19, no. 5 (2008): 509–13.
51.
 
all introverts are constantly … vigilant about threats
: Indeed, many contemporary
personality psychologists would say that threat-vigilance is more characteristic of a trait
known as “neuroticism” than of introversion per se.
52.
 
threat-vigilance is more characteristic of a trait
: But harm avoidance is correlated with
both introversion and neuroticism (both traits are associated with Jerry Kagan’s “high
reactivity” and Elaine Aron’s “high sensitivity”). See Mary E. Stewart et al., “Personality
Correlates of Happiness and Sadness: EPQ-R and TPQ Compared,” 
Personality and Individual
Differences
38, no. 5 (2005): 1085–96.
53.
 
“If 
you 
want 
to 
determine”
: 
can 
be 
found 
at
http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccarver/sclBISBAS.html
. I first came across this scale in
Jonathan Haidt’s excellent book, 
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient
Wisdom
(New York: Basic Books, 2005), 34.
54.
 
“become independent of the social environment”
: Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, 
Flow: The
Psychology of Optimal Experience
(New York: Harper Perennial, 1990), 16.
55.
 
“Psychological theories usually assume”
: Mihalyi Csikszentmilhalyi, 
The Evolving Self: A
Psychology for the Third Millennium
(New York: Harper Perennial, 1994), xii.
56.