Xenon
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But it just seemed like the article suggested we don't like people or can "take or leave" human relationships. If you saw me with a good friend you wouldn't say that...
My first thought was something along these lines - presumably these would have been unfamiliar human faces, would they not? The results may have been quite different if the subjects were viewing the faces of important people in their lives.
Also, the fact that introverts' brains show the same P300 response to flowers and (strangers') faces doesn't mean their entire brains were responding identically. If they were, they wouldn't be able to distinguish between people and flowers.
And as for this...
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
The subjects were looking at a series of unfamiliar faces. How does that tell you anything about their neurological responses to "interactions with" people?
The study could well tell us something interesting about introverts vs. extroverts, but the way these things are interpreted and reported just makes makes me sometimes.