From: The Atlantic
Extroverts Don’t Belong on Mars
The Atlantic:
Extroverted friends are good for a lot of things—serving as deft and lively wingmen, spicing up book club, sparking interesting conversations at parties by wearing ostentatious leggings, etc.
One thing they may be less suited for: Long voyages to faraway planets.
Scientists are starting to think seriously about a manned flight to Mars. NASA isworking on a spacecraft that could eventually make it to the red planet and back. Netherlands-based Mars One plans to send a team of astronauts to Mars in 2024 to establish a permanent human colony. That’s right: the Mars One is a one-way trip. These people are going to have to get along.
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DePaul University psychologist Suzanne Bell has been studying the personality types that would perform best on these prolonged, isolated journeys. In a recent poster presentation at Association for Psychological Science in San Francisco, she discussed the results of her review of research of personality types in “space analogue environments.”
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