It's Tougher For Extroverts To Stay Inside In Lockdown

Whether you comply with Covid-19 pandemic rules, such as staying at home during lockdown, depends more on your personality than anything else. Surprised? I was.

- Dr Miriam Stoppard

A survey of 101,000 people in 55 countries carried out by a team of psychology researchers from Cambridge, Columbia and Harvard universities asked whether they were staying at home between late March and early April.

Extroverts turn out to be the least likely to follow official guidance to stay at home. This led the team to suggest tailoring public health messages towards extrovert people to encourage compliance and help prevent the spread of coronavirus.

“Extroverts are gregarious and sociable, and they found it especially hard to stay cooped up at home and not see other people.