Not everyone who seems outgoing feels energized by social interaction. These behaviors reveal the soft, thoughtful ways ...

The party was whatever. Good food, people I actually liked, and conversation that didn’t require too much effort. By any measure, a success. And yet by nine o’clock, something in me had quietly ...

If you've been told you need to come out of your shell, you might just be a true introvert—here are the signs.

While we all know individuals who are wildly outgoing, plenty of fun to be around and occasionally even obnoxious, chances are we relate less to these extroverts and more to introverts or people ...

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Discover why some people crave silence and what it says about your personality and brain.

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

Counterintuitively, the more socially detached proclivities of introverts afford them considerable social advantages over more outwardly engaged (and engageable) extroverts. To pinpoint the innermost ...

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