Groups Grow Disappointed with Extroverts Over Time

Upon joining a group, extroverts are perceived as having high status. But in an online experiment involving imagined scenarios, extroverts' perceived status slipped from 4.37 to 3.87 on a 7-point scale as the group came to consider their assertiveness and talkativeness less valuable and to suspect that they were motivated by self-interest, say Corinne Bendersky of UCLA and Neha Parikh Shah of Rutgers. To retain their status, extroverts must contribute at especially high levels to counter growing negative perceptions of them, the researchers say.