Wanting to be more social or outgoing sounds deceptively simple: Just talk to more people, say yes to every invite, and strike up friendly conversations with strangers, right? But for introverts, ...

What did I do to deserve this? My older son, Douglas, is nothing like me where personality is concerned. My natural instinct — and that of my younger son as well — is to jump off a cliff and worry ...

Most introverts hate when they have to socialize and do anything that doesn’t fit into the carefully curated plan they have for the day. Extroverts, on the other hand, find pleasure in constant social ...

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 ...

There is a meme in modern therapy culture saying that you shouldn’t try to change – you are perfectly imperfect, and that the right people will accommodate your every idiosyncrasy. Relatedly, ...

Q. My partner is the life of the party! We’ve been together for 15-plus years, and I love this person dearly. When it’s just the two of us, we get along wonderfully. However, a recurring conflict ...

While introverts generally prefer their alone time and need solitude to recharge their social battery after social interaction, according to a study from the Journal of Research in Personality, ...

Introverts don’t need to become extroverts. But sometimes I’ve let my introversion excuse my failure to love God’s people as I should. Somewhere in the lower circles of introvert hell, about halfway ...

While neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction — just think of C-3PO in Star Wars or Marvin in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — they haven't really been a focus of research into how ...

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. Researchers who study how people react to robot personalities, however, haven't focused on this much — though one study recently found that neurotic ...

Do you ever feel like you grew up in the wrong family? Interestingly, I hear this frequently from introverts who grew up in more extraverted families. As we are well aware, extraverts recharge by ...