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People tend to feel happier when they act more extraverted, but is extraverted behavior always beneficial? We propose that flextraverts—people who adapt their levels of extraversion towards what is optimal in a given situation—achieve better outcomes than both rigid people (who show little variability in their extraversion) and inconsistent people (who randomly fluctuate between extraverted and introverted states without being calibrated to situational demands). In this study, we aim to examine whether different situations have different optimal levels of extraversion, and the extent to which participants agree with each other about the extraversion optimality of each situation.

The main objective of the present paper is to examine whether distinct trajectories of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic represent the data best (covering a time span from March 2020 to February 2021).

In this study, we are interested in how students’ personality (extraversion and neuroticism) and subjective well- being change during two COVID-19 lockdowns. We already surveyed a cohort of first-year students at four times of measurement (October 2019, January 2020, April 2020, May 2020) and now repeat and pre-register the same survey with this year’s cohort (November 2020, February 2021, April 2021, May 2021).