10 Kickass Facts About Introverts

5. Introverts Treat People Like Inanimate Objects

It’s hard to call this a kickass fact, because like the last study it paints introverts in a slightly negative light. But there’s no denying that this fact is pretty badass. A recent study has shown that introverts react pretty much the same way when they see a car or some flowers as they do when they see a human face. Yep, that’s definitely a little creepy. This study was done through the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, and was presented in 2010 at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. They measured the brainwaves of extroverted and introverted people while showing them pictures of flowers and faces. The introverts had identical brainwave patterns whether they were seeing faces or flowers.

Researcher Inna Fishman revealed what this means: “[This] supports the claim that introverts, or their brains, might be indifferent to people — they can take them or leave them, so to speak. The introvert’s brain treats interactions with people the same way it treats encounters with other, non-human information, such as inanimate objects for example.”