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I think there's at least 3 different dimensions here:

1. Comfort vs. Anxiety: how anxious does a particular interaction make you feel.

2. Introversion vs. Extroversion: are you more recharged or more drained by social interaction in general. (anxiety probably causes people to be more drained than they would otherwise - anxious people probably consider themselves more introverted than they actually are)

3. Awkward vs. Fluid: is handling a social situation correctly hard or automatic? (the expectation of being awkward increases anxiety; anxiety may increase awkwardness)

Some extra dimensions:

- Experience level in a given kind of social interaction

- How much social interaction someone "needs" (e.g. they might get recharged by being social, but not need much charging)




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