extravert

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Also known as: extrovert

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The term extravert (or extrovert) was coined by psychologist C. G. Jung to describe a personality type focused on the external world and social interaction. Extraverts are characterized by outgoingness, drawing energy from engaging with others, and a preference for social situations. They tend to be responsive, active, and decisive. This contrasts with introverts, whose energy is directed inward toward their own thoughts and feelings. While Jung's initial typology presented these as distinct categories, modern psychology recognizes that most individuals fall somewhere in between, exhibiting traits of both introversion and extraversion, a state known as ambiversion.123

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introvert and extravert
extravert, basic personality types according to the theories of the 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. According to these theories, an introvert is a person whose interest is generally directed inward toward his own feelings and thoughts, in contrast to an extravert, whose attention is directed…
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extravert, basic personality types according to the theories of the 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. According to these theories, an introvert is a person whose interest is generally directed inward toward his own feelings and thoughts, in contrast to an extravert, whose attention is directed…
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Carl Jung
Association with Freud
…people according to attitude types: extraverted (outward-looking) and introverted (inward-looking). Later he differentiated four functions of the mind—thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition—one or more of which predominate in any given person. Results of this study were embodied in Psychologische Typen (1921; Psychological Types, 1923). Jung’s wide scholarship was well manifested…
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…people according to attitude types: extraverted (outward-looking) and introverted (inward-looking). Later he differentiated four functions of the mind—thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition—one or more of which predominate in any given person. Results of this study were embodied in Psychologische Typen (1921; Psychological Types, 1923). Jung’s wide scholarship was well manifested…
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personality
Jung
…expense of social interactions and extroversion as a preference for social interplay for living out inner drives (collectively termed libido). The existence of these two types receives empirical support from most studies of traits (see below Trait theories).
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…expense of social interactions and extroversion as a preference for social interplay for living out inner drives (collectively termed libido). The existence of these two types receives empirical support from most studies of traits (see below Trait theories).
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