Here's a very interesting web page examining traits like introversion/extroversion, shyness and dominance in regards to political affiliation: Neuropolitics.org
The evidence isn't totally conclusive, and political neuroscience itself is still fairly new as far as I know, but findings so far seem very convincing, and corroborate suspicions I've had for many years just from observation and intuition. The findings show liberals lean much more toward introversion and shyness and conservatives toward dominance (but conservatives also excell at submissiveness - indicating that they simply are much more willing to play the social dominance game).
My personal view is that extroversion is rampant at the extremes of both liberal and conservative, but that there's probaly a wider swath of introversion among liberals than conservatives.
Here's a link to the archive on that site: http://neuropolitics.org/backissues.asp
Haven't looked at any of the other pages yet, but some of the articles look extremely interesting. I think I'll start with the one on Morality and the Dopamine Reward System.
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