title: Channeling Identity: A Study of Storytelling in Conversations Between Introverted and Extraverted Friends.
abstract: This narrative study examined the process of personal storytelling between college-age friends who were similarly introverted or extraverted. Participants were 19 introverted and 20 extraverted same-sex pairs (49 percent female) who had been friends for an average of 18 months. Stories emerged spontaneously during 10-minute catch-up conversations. Extraverted friends more often told stories that changed the topic, and more often co-constructed story plots. Introverted friends more often told stories that were embedded in a developing theme, and constructed story plots solo. With regard to content, extraverted friends told stories about romance more so than introverted friends, whose stories more often concerned family/hometown, and older events. The findings suggest that the traits of extraversion and introversion channel the identity-making process.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Santa Cruz.
authors.forename: Avril
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thorne
authors.forename: Neill
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Korobov
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Morgan