One of the Big Five personality characteristics that gets a lot of attention is Extraversion (and its opposite Introversion). Extraverts are motivated to engage with other people in social situations.

If you don’t know whether you’re an introvert or extravert, you live under a rock. The terms were invented by Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung in the 1920s. They’ve since adopted a ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Jung may be rolling in his grave. All over ...

Leadership is a human universal. It can even be seen in other species, which suggests it may be an evolutionarily ancient process. A common personality trait of “natural” leaders is a higher than ...

Research finds that extraverts who are instructed to “act introverted” experienced a rise in negative emotions and a dip in performance. In the current climate, these professors expect the negative ...

Approximately 100% of the advice offered to introverts amounts to this: “be more like an extravert!” Hogwash. Extraverts are annoying and commonplace. Why would any introvert want to imitate them?

One of the Big Five personality characteristics that gets a lot of attention is Extraversion (and its opposite Introversion). Extraverts are motivated to engage with other people in social situations.

Andrew Spark receives funding from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP190100848). Peter O'Connor receives funding from the ...