Psychologist Dr. Jessica Ribeiro, PhD defines introversion as a personality trait characterized by a preference for quiet, less stimulating environments and activities. “It describes how you gain ...

Social introverts, thinking introverts, anxious introverts and restrained introverts all have positive qualities.

Even though they tend to appreciate, enjoy, and thrive in social environments, like those of their extroverted peers, ...

Raymond Cattell is one of the founding fathers of the trait perspective in personality psychology. He is widely known for his role in the development of factor analysis, a statistical tool for ...

Many people assume personality types exist on a broad spectrum — but research suggests there's one especially rare type that ...

Can't seem to match the energy of a good friend? You might be on opposite ends of the personality spectrum — and that's OK.

The Social Media You Choose Reveals How You See Yourself: The Case of Introversion-Extraversion. Social Networking, 15, 1-9.

For years, Olga Khazan, a Virginia-based staff writer at The Atlantic, knew she had a big problem: she hated much of her own personality. "I was constantly worried about everything," she said. "Just ...

I’m an introvert. This became pretty hard to ignore as I climbed the leadership ladder and ran into its most dreaded feature: constant social interaction. As far as I could tell, the extraverts had ...