Discover how quickly solitude drains your mental battery and why extroverts recharge faster around other people.

After growing up convinced he was somehow flawed, Peter Vogt realized he was simply an introvert in an extroverts' world. Now he teaches others how to embrace the power of their deep-thinking brains.

The classic labels of introvert and extrovert have long been used to explain why some people thrive off of social interaction and why some people prefer solitude. While neither one is “better” than ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

As a leadership consultant who studies workplace psychology, I've spent more than 30 years helping thousands of individuals and CEOs at multimillion-dollar organizations. I've always been observant of ...

Did you hear that slamming sound? That was me, hitting a wall. A creative wall. I didn’t just stub my toe on writer’s block. Or knock my knees against a little stone wall. No, this wall is eight feet ...

When fellow Psychology Today introvert blogger Sophia Dembling and I recently chatted by phone, we discovered that we both like communicating in sound bites—an efficient use of our introverts' energy.

Introverts attract extroverts They say that opposites attract, and it looks as though that’s the case for introverts. They often attract extroverts, but how does that work? After all, one person ...