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  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Behavioral Economics

Background:

  • Social Baseline Theory posits individual differences in resource integration based on environmental demands.
  • Previous suggestions linked extraversion to the social baseline, but empirical evidence was lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically test if extraversion specifically indicates an individual's social baseline.
  • To investigate how extraversion influences the integration of social and technical resources.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted involving participants moving rolls.
  • Participants could move rolls alone, with social resources (Experiment 1), or with tools (Experiment 2).

Main Results:

  • Extraversion positively predicted the utilization of both social resources and tools.
  • Higher extraversion correlated with a greater perceived benefit of using either resource type.

Conclusions:

  • Extraversion is not exclusively an indicator of the social baseline.
  • Extraversion reflects a general tendency to integrate various resources (social and technical) into action.
  • Further research is needed to define 'resource' within Social Baseline Theory.