So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion

[Sanguine]

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June 25, 2015 12:29 p.m.

So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion

By Melissa Dahl

Introversion, thanks largely to Susan Cain's 2012 best seller Quiet, is having something of a cultural moment. Once a mostly misunderstood personality trait — and often considered a behavioral defect when it was considered at all — it's now the subject of countless other books and online listicles (and, more recently, parodies of listicles). And as more regular, non-scientist types started to talk about introversion, psychologist Jonathan Cheek began to notice something: The way many introverts defined the trait was different from the way he and most of his academic colleagues did.

"When you survey a person on the street, asking them to define introversion, what comes up as the prototypical characteristics ... are things like thoughtful or introspective," said Cheek, a psychology professor at Wellesley College. And yet neither of these things are part of the definition of the trait according to scientific literature....

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/06/apparently-there-are-four-kinds-of-introversion.html

I suspect many of us here are introverts.

[Joe Wooten]

I suspect many of us here are introverts.

I am an extrovert engineer, I look at your shoes instead of mine when we talk........

[Free Vulcan]

I am all four depending on the setting. No surprise there.

That said part of my introversion is having too many penis waving frat boy and catty but slutty sorority girl types in school. Calling it oppressive is down playing. I pretty much hopped off the pop culture social train early in life.

[Sanguine]

I am an extrovert engineer, I look at your shoes instead of mine when we talk........

LOL!

[Ghost Bear]

It seems like yet another example of where the supposed "experts", aren't.

As for myself, I've tended to exhibit all four of the types of introversion listed in the article, at various points in my life one or another type would be prevalent. As I get older I can see myself being a hermit, the "scary old man" who lives in the house on the corner that no one ever visits...

[Sanguine]

I am all four depending on the setting. No surprise there.

That said part of my introversion is having too many penis waving frat boy and catty but slutty sorority girl types in school. Calling it oppressive is down playing. I pretty much hopped off the pop culture social train early in life.

Nothing wrong with being an introvert.  We're the ones who figure things out and make things work.

[roamer_1]

"When you survey a person on the street, asking them to define introversion, what comes up as the prototypical characteristics ... are things like thoughtful or introspective," said Cheek, a psychology professor at Wellesley College. And yet neither of these things are part of the definition of the trait according to scientific literature....

well if they are 'on the street' and don't reply with 'Leave me alone', they probably aren't introverts at all. 

I suspect many of us here are introverts.

Had a lady on a dating site ask where all us introverts hang out... she can't find one...
We don't 'hang out'. We're introverts. 

[Free Vulcan]

Nothing wrong with being an introvert.  We're the ones who figure things out and make things work.

True dat. And weather the harder economic times better when you can't slide by on social fluff.

[rodamala]

I suspect many of us here are introverts.

WANDA:  I can't stand people.  I hate them.

HENRY:  Oh, yeah?

WANDA:  You hate them?

HENRY:  No, uh, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuXpD3xDwvU

[RoosGirl]

My husband's boss accused me of being a real estate agent because I could shake hands and carry on a short conversation with him upon meeting him the first time.  I can fake it with the best of them, but my preference is quiet solitude.  He didn't have to insult me like that though. ;P

[Suppressed]

I am all four depending on the setting. No surprise there.

Yeah, same here.

[Suppressed]

Had a lady on a dating site ask where all us introverts hang out... she can't find one...
We don't 'hang out'. We're introverts. 

[Sanguine]

I love that! 

[roamer_1]

LMAO!

[roamer_1]

Yeah, same here.

Mine was much like yours except not much toward anxiety.

[Sanguine]

I didn't save mine, but it leaned most toward thinking. 

[Wingnut]

Intro's are like short people.  They aint go no reason to live.

[Sanguine]

Intro's are like short people.  They aint go no reason to live.

We don't need no reasons - we ARE the reason.

[bigheadfred]

It won't let me take the test.

[RoosGirl]

We don't need no reasons - we ARE the reason.

 

[rodamala]

[Smokin Joe]

It won't let me take the test.

Me either. (I'll figure it out without them.) 

[bigheadfred]

Me either. (I'll figure it out without them.) 

Oh hey. Try using Chrome browser.

I don't know where people got that graph thingy from?

All it told me was....So...Apparently There Are 6 Kinds of Introversion...

[DB]

I'm an introvert. My brain crashes with larger groups. I'm also antisocial...

[Wingnut]

I'm an introvert. My brain crashes with larger groups. I'm also antisocial...

I don't like people.  When I tell people that "I don't like people" they don't think I was talking about them.   Morons.