Acting like an extravert has benefits, but not for introverts(aeon.co)

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Acting like an extravert has benefits, but not for introverts

https://aeon.co/ideas/acting-like-an-extravert-has-benefits-but-not-for-introverts

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>‘Thus,’ write the researchers, ‘the main effects of the intervention were wholly positive, and no costs of extraverted behaviour were detected for the average participant.’ The advantages were to a large extent mediated by participants acting more extraverted more often – though, interestingly, not by being in more social situations: ie, by changing the quality of their social interactions, not the quantity of them.

I was under the impression the extrovert/introvert distinction was essentially one of quantity: the introversion demand less social interactions, extroversion more. This conclusion reads to me as if it said, "It is mentally healthy to consistently assert yourself" which I take to be true regardless but that also kinda calls into question this whole distinction to me.