introversion

Examples of introvert

introvert
If introverts are easier to socialize, this level will be achieved with less effort and attention than with extraverts.
The introvert would be as much at risk as the extravert, as a differential would apply in the application of the limited attention available.
Just as extraverts were expected to receive more social conditioning attention than introverts, introverts would require, and presumably receive, more deconditioning attention.
That is, can urban industry stand on its own feet without forcing rural people to suffer from a stagnant, introverted, and austere mode of existence?
Furthermore, the politics of aid has often constructed a very ' introverted ' politics based in large cities.
Extraverted individuals are thought to condition more slowly and thus to account for more unsocialized behaviour, including delinquency, than introverts.
Equally, extraverts would not now be expected to receive more (undifferentiated) training attention than introverts.
As many introverts as extraverts somehow remained sufficiently under-socialized to commit the repeated unlawful acts that typically precede such incarceration.
For example, the strong proclivity of extroverts towards political discussion and opinionation gives rise to the plausible hypothesis that other predictors of these phenomena may operate predominantly on introverts.
This would explain the conical rather than cylindrical shape and the fact that the tube is shorter than the animal, always leaving the everted introvert outside.
Jackson's performance impressed me as introverted and concentrated, with varying timbre, often soft.
It may be natural to dichotomize people in categorical terms such as extravert versus introvert, but this oversimplification can obscure much of the important diversity in human personality.
Although the training period was, as expected, not shorter for introverts, the amount of conditioning attention needed per month to effect this equivalence was not apparently greater for the extraverts.
This group included a minority of students who were quite introverted and shy, and others who whilst much more extrovert were not necessarily always naturally cooperative.
The study showed that learners who could concentrate for long periods (introverts), focus on details (sensing), and organise their learning (judging), were the most likely to be high-achievers.
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