If want to hear lots of specific details about a TV show you missed, you’re better off asking a shy person in the office, rather than the loud-mouth talking about it in the break room.  That’s because, according to a study by Dutch scientist Camiel Beukeboom, introverts use more descriptive and concrete language than extroverts.  Extroverts are far more likely to use abstract language and remember details less accurately.

In the experiment, 40 subjects were asked to describe a set of ambiguous photos and then returned three days later to take a personality test. Participants who were graded as introverts had more mentions of numbers, used more definite articles (i.e. «a», «the»), and made more distinctions in their speech (i.e. use of words like «but» and «except»).  On the other hand, extroverts used more colorful adjectives and described objects/events that were not visible in the photos. When asked, the…