In a city not known for being especially gregarious, people flock to these more mellow alternatives to bars or clubs.

The party was whatever. Good food, people I actually liked, and conversation that didn’t require too much effort. By any measure, a success. And yet by nine o’clock, something in me had quietly ...

If you've been told you need to come out of your shell, you might just be a true introvert—here are the signs.

While we all know individuals who are wildly outgoing, plenty of fun to be around and occasionally even obnoxious, chances are we relate less to these extroverts and more to introverts or people ...

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With summer in full swing, your extroverted best friend is psyched to socialize the night away at your mutual friend’s backyard barbecue. You, on the other hand, are staring at the clock. (And I don’t ...

Counterintuitively, the more socially detached proclivities of introverts afford them considerable social advantages over more outwardly engaged (and engageable) extroverts. To pinpoint the innermost ...

While Jung is famous for saying no one is a pure introvert or pure extrovert, I will go beyond this to say there is no such thing as an introvert (or an extrovert). Most of us have a healthy mix of ...

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