Introduction When individuals are asked to describe themselves, they will most likely start by naming off personality traits. Some of these personality traits named might be; kindness, friendliness, aggression, creative, curious and/or sociable. However, all these traits are subcategories of the Five Factor Model personality traits. This model focuses on the five superordinate traits that aim to encompass all other sub traits. These sub traits are: extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness and neuroticism (Ahmetoglu & Chamorro-Premuzic, 2012; Corr, 2009; Haddock & Rutkowski, 2014). Each individual lies somewhere on a scale from low to high for each of these traits, and these results are received after taking a test asking questions
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This means that an individual that is referred to as an extrovert is seen as having multiple of these common facets (Ahmetoglu & Chamorro-Premuzic, 2012; Corr, 2009; Fadi Al Shalabi, M., & Mohammad Ali, 2009; Haddock & Rutkowski, 2014). For example, most comedians are seen as extroverts, one popular comedian being Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart is a comedian who is very sociable, he can easily do stand-up comedy or act for movies. He is also very friendly according to the media because has made friends with many other celebrities including Oprah (Exton, 2014). Many studies have been completed to figure out why extroverts act the way they do and some primarily focus on what functions of the brain impact an individual’s personality trait of extroversion. A few studies that directly focus on certain parts of the brain include research on: dopamine level differences in extroverts versus introverts, language-learning abilities, and P300- which relates to processing and decision making when given a stimuli (Fishman, Ng & Bellugi, 2011; Kayaoğlu, 2013; Rammsayer, 1998). Each of these studies draw on brain functions of extroverts, the way the brain reacts to stimuli, and compares it to the way an introvert
This means that an individual that is referred to as an extrovert is seen as having multiple of these common facets (Ahmetoglu & Chamorro-Premuzic, 2012; Corr, 2009; Fadi Al Shalabi, M., & Mohammad Ali, 2009; Haddock & Rutkowski, 2014). For example, most comedians are seen as extroverts, one popular comedian being Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart is a comedian who is very sociable, he can easily do stand-up comedy or act for movies. He is also very friendly according to the media because has made friends with many other celebrities including Oprah (Exton, 2014). Many studies have been completed to figure out why extroverts act the way they do and some primarily focus on what functions of the brain impact an individual’s personality trait of extroversion. A few studies that directly focus on certain parts of the brain include research on: dopamine level differences in extroverts versus introverts, language-learning abilities, and P300- which relates to processing and decision making when given a stimuli (Fishman, Ng & Bellugi, 2011; Kayaoğlu, 2013; Rammsayer, 1998). Each of these studies draw on brain functions of extroverts, the way the brain reacts to stimuli, and compares it to the way an introvert