title: Caught in the Act: How Extraverted and Introverted Friends Communally Cope with Being Recorded.
abstract: This study explored how close friends who were similar or opposite on extraversion communally coped with being put on the spot to produce a recorded conversation. Participants were 50 pairs of same-sex college-age friends (54% female) who explicitly discussed the fact that their conversation was being recorded. The initial 'on-stage' episode emerged consistently earliest for extraverted dyads, and the majority of their episodes quickly diverted the on-stage moment. Dyads that included at least one introvert engaged in more extensive assortments of on-stage maneuvers, including research talk, soothing, and joking. In introvert-extravert dyads the extravert usually initiated and ended these episodes. Implications are discussed for understanding how personality is reciprocally implicated in managing shared everyday problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz,1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
authors.forename: Avril
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thorne
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cardilla
authors.forename: Neill
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Korobov
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Nelson