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The science of personality and the art of well-being with Brian Little

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Importance of Restorative Niches

I appreciate how when you're forced to act out of character and be disagreeable, it can really feel awful. The empirical study of acting out of character with agreeableness, disagreeableness, as far as I know is not preceded. And given what we found with with extraversion, I want to be very cautious in saying that we're going to expect this free trade argument to hold. It's hard for extroverts to act introvertedly all day long in front of a computer when they're dying for social contact and excitement. That's different restorative niches for different people. What would be fun to see is to make disagreeable people feel stressed when they have to

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