Reddit user Velvetxily asked their fellow internet introverts to share one thing they’d wish that extroverts would understand about them in a viral thread.

Actually, introverts tend to have great powers of concentration, develop deep friendships and have strong people skills in small-group or one-on-one situations, writes Calabasas psychologist Marti ...

Bill Gates is quiet and bookish, but apparently unfazed by others’ opinions of him: He’s an introvert, but not shy. Barbra Streisand has an outgoing, larger than life personality, but a paralyzing ...

This is a question I remember being asked a lot in my undergraduate days. My coursemates, apparently wondered why I was always reserved and seldom joined their small talks. What I never understood was ...

Many people assume that all introverts are shy or uncomfortable in social settings. They get labeled "mysterious" and "closed off," simply because they are not as outgoing or talkative as their ...

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they’re the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay ...

Ask any health-care professional who specializes in the treatment of social phobias and social reticence -- that is, shyness and introversion -- to explain what they do and most will describe not only ...

I had never met Sophia Dembling in person. We met as members of several online writer communities that we both frequented because we had so many overlapping interests. She lives in Texas, but her ...

When fellow Psychology Today introvert blogger Sophia Dembling and I recently chatted by phone, we discovered that we both like communicating in sound bites—an efficient use of our introverts' energy.