Introverts Fared Better Than Extroverts During the Pandemic

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Learn about introverts’ and extroverts’ pandemic response; astronaut farts; and why violet and purple are different.

Introverts fared better than extroverts during the pandemic by Kelsey Donk

Benz, M. (2021). COVID-19 and College Students: Introverts Coped Better than Extroverts During Shutdown. Medicalresearch.com. https://medicalresearch.com/mental-health-research/covid-19-and-college-students-introverts-coped-better-than-extroverts-during-shutdown/57012/
Extroverts and introverts showed differences in mood during early COVID 19 pandemic. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/p-eai032221.php
Rettew, D. C., McGinnis, E. W., Copeland, W., Nardone, H. Y., Bai, Y., Rettew, J., Devadenam, V., & Hudziak, J. J. (2021). Personality trait predictors of adjustment during the COVID pandemic among college students. PLOS ONE, 16(3), e0248895. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248895

In the 1960s, people were worried that astronaut farts were a fire hazard by Grant Currin

Krulwich, R. (2010, October 4). Space Propulsion Made Easy: Eat Beans. NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/09/16/129908529/space-propulsion-made-easy-eat-beans
Seriously Science. (2018, August 23). Farts: An Under-appreciated Threat to Astronauts. Discover Magazine; Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/farts-an-underappreciated-threat-to-astronauts
Starr, M. (2018). Here’s The Really Gross Reason Why You Don’t Want to Burp in Space. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-the-really-gross-reason-why-you-don-t-want-to-burp-in-space
Calloway DH, Murphy EL. (2021). Intestinal hydrogen and methane of men fed space diet. Life Sciences and Space Research, 7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12197533/

Violet and purple are completely different forms of color by Ashley Hamer

Pappas, S. (2010, April 29). How Do We See Color? Livescience.com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/32559-why-do-we-see-in-color.html
https://www.facebook.com/sciencequestionswithchris. (2012). Why are there only six fundamental colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet? Science Questions with Surprising Answers. https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2012/12/04/why-are-there-only-six-fundamental-colors-red-orange-yellow-green-blue-and-violet/
Color. (2021). Gsu.edu. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/specol.html
Marian, J. (2021). Difference between “violet” and “purple.” Jakubmarian.com. https://jakubmarian.com/difference-between-violet-and-purple/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Goff.
0:07.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you learn about why introverts fared better than extroverts during the pandemic, that time people were afraid that astronaut
0:14.7	farts were a fire hazard, and why violet and purple are completely different colors.
0:20.3	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:22.3	No one has had a great Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:23.0	No one has had a great time during the pandemic.
0:27.0	But new research suggests that introverts may have fared better than extroverts,
0:32.0	for a pretty surprising reason.
0:34.9	That's the news from the University of Vermont where researchers were simply hoping to take
0:39.8	a look at college students mental health and how much they engaged in wellness activities
0:44.2	over the course of a normal college semester.
0:47.0	First, they had a group of 484 college freshmen take a big five personality test at the start of the semester and then the
0:56.1	coronavirus pandemic sent them home. But the study continued. Even from home
1:02.3	the researchers had the students complete daily ratings of their mood,
1:06.0	stress, and wellness activities using a smartphone app.
1:09.8	They noted how much exercise they got, how mindful they felt, and whether they got enough sleep.
1:15.9	The researchers realized that instead of tracking wellness over the course of a regular semester,
1:21.4	they were getting some pretty interesting information about the effects of pandemic lockdowns.
1:27.0	Unsurprisingly, as the pandemic set in, the student's moods and wellness habits fell.
1:32.0	To the researchers' surprise, though, students' moods and wellness habits fell.
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