The Oxford study also analysed over 200 actors – and found that while they rated high on the extrovert scale, they scored low for introversion.
Lithuanians, also prone to introversion, have never delivered on repeated promises to sort out arcane disputes about spelling and property rights affecting the country's ethnic Poles, who number nearly a tenth of the population.
Uzbekistan could abandon its introversion and become the economic hub of Central Asia, with a large domestic market and a diverse export base.
Public exasperation with academic introversion may lead to a loss of some independence, the most precious right of academics in a free society.
A geography that is difficult even by Latin American standards predisposed the country towards introversion, regionalism and a weak central state.
Curiously, to those who expect to hear from Greens the voice of introversion, when he broaches the topic he sounds like no one so much as the great European himself, Mr Kohl—"120 kilos of the past made flesh", as Mr Fischer unkindly calls him.
The question is whether such burden-sharing would strengthen the alliance or merely paper over the cracks.Europeans are already showing that, despite their introversion, they are prepared to act in ways that help the United States outside Europe.
For the writer, it was a sign not just of defensive introversion among Muslims living in Britain, but of British society's willingness to accept or even encourage such attitudes.But for some traditional Muslims, exactly the opposite logic comes into play.
He asks that "the German elites and public forbear national introversion" because there is no alternative to German leadership.
The conservative opposition, in a mood of deep introversion after being turfed out last October, can hardly challenge the handling of a crisis it helped to create.
Days after the prize announcement, Mr Phelps wrote an excellent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on the benefits of capitalism.Another exceptional aspect of Mr. Phelps: though we recently poked fun at the introversion of many economists, Mr Phelps is almost indecently affable*.
