Extroverts Could be a Liability on Trip to Mars, Study Says
Extroverts Could be a Liability on Trip to Mars, Study Says

Extroverts Could be a Liability on Trip to Mars, Study Says

A new study has revealed that while extroverts may thrive down on Earth in social situations, they could be a liability on a trip to Mars.

Since NASA and other organizations are interested in sending humans to Mars, psychology researchers have been tasked in figuring out which personalities would work best for a long-term space trip.

Extroverts thrive at parties and on teams where they can speak freely, but on a three-year round trip to Mars, they could upset the social balance if others do not want to talk as much.

“You are talking about a very tiny vehicle, where people are in very isolated, very confined spaces,” Suzanne Bell, an associate professor of psychology at DePaul University in Chicago was quoted as saying.

Extroverts have a little bit of a tough time in that situation, Bell added.

Having an extrovert on board a long-term deep space mission could be a disadvantage because if one person on a crew always wants to talk, while the other members are less social, “it could actually get pretty annoying” in that environment, she said.

For the NASA-funded study, researchers reviewed previous studies on teams who lived in environments similar to those of a long-term space mission, including simulated spacecraft missions of more than 100 days, as well as missions in Antarctica.

NASA is interested in a number of issues related to planning long-term space missions, including how to put together the most compatible teams for the missions, Live Science reported.

Agencies/Canadajournal




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