It took me years to figure out the right answer to that question. For most of my life, I considered myself an extrovert. People told me I was a good communicator, I enjoyed spending time with others, ...

But this sometimes vicious negative bias toward introverts and introversion has started to change lately, due in part to the burgeoning interest in meditation and mindfulness (two forms of introverted ...

The terms introvert and extrovert were coined by renowned German psychologist Carl Gustav Jung to describe fundamental personality orientations ...

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung popularized the terms introvert and extrovert in the 1900s; but a century later, his postulations about personality types have become so warped by popular culture that the ...

The MBTI test helped spread the terms ‘introversion’ and ‘extroversion’ to a wider audience, but it’s widely seen as pseudoscientific.Photograph: H Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images About 10 ...

There’s no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. That doesn’t mean your social friends aren’t losing it. By Ann Friedman Introverts have ruled the social-media era. Before isolation became the ...

“The introvert/extrovert dichotomy isn’t the end all be all in life, but knowing your preferences could help you identify your strong suits and where you might need to put in some extra conscious ...

Traditionally, because we in western culture tend to take a more extraverted orientation to life (as compared, for instance, to India and Asia), introverts have long been prejudicially perceived as ...