When Your Baby Pulls Away: Reading Shyness in Infants
Some babies reach toward strangers with open arms. Others press their faces into a parent’s shoulder and go still. Both…
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When Shyness Isn’t Shyness: BPD, Social Anxiety, and You
Borderline personality disorder and social anxiety disorder share a striking number of surface-level features, which means people, including clinicians, sometimes…
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When Being Social Doesn’t Make You an Extrovert
Being very social does not automatically make someone an extrovert. Sociability describes a behavior, while extroversion describes where a person…
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The Silent Offense: Why Being Quiet Makes People Uncomfortable
People dislike a quiet person not because of anything that person has actually done, but because silence triggers discomfort in…
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The Quiet Apology: Why Introverts Say Sorry for Existing
Saying sorry when you bump into a chair is one thing. Saying sorry because you asked a question, took up…
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Gone Quiet? Why You Freeze Around the Person You Like
Going quiet around someone you like isn’t a flaw in your personality. For many introverts, the closer someone feels emotionally,…
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The Quiet Scientists Who Gave Introverts a Name
Carl Jung introduced the terms introvert and extrovert to modern psychology in his 1921 work Psychological Types, framing them as…
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What Your Emotional Blueprint Reveals About Who You Really Are
Several assessments measure both personality and emotional functioning together, but the most widely used frameworks include the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality…
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Carl Jung Gave Us Introverts and Extroverts. Here’s Why It Still Matters
The concepts of introverts and extroverts come from Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist who introduced these terms in his…
