this personality disorder. “Histrionic personality disorder represents to a great extent an extreme variant of extraversion” (Widiger, Trull, et al., 2002, p. 94). Millon's (1981) original conceptualization of this personality disorder was as the “gregarious pattern” (p. 131). Histrionic is the only personality disorder considered to involve high levels of more than one facet of extraversion, and it is this aspect of the disorder that largely distinguishes it from the others (Lynam & Widiger, 2001).
