Social anxiety disorder is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as “A persistent fear of one or more social situations where embarrassment may occur and the fear or ...

I grew up in a family of talkers who drove our teachers crazy. I remember sitting in my English 102 class during college with just two weeks left in the semester. My professor looked at me and said, ...

While the days of a completely segregated gender binary were relatively brief to begin with and rapidly waning, social conventions still routinely use the concepts of women and men to organize people ...

Introverts can excel in leadership by leveraging their strengths and building systems to compensate for social energy drains. Implementing strategies like setting expectations and finding alternative ...

Depending on your natural level of extraversion, you may view chit-chat with strangers more like a mild form of torture than a mood booster (as an introvert, I hear you). But the research is clear: ...