Think You're An Introvert? You're Probably Wrong

  • Published: 06-10-2014 Edited: 06-10-2014
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-introvert-2014-6

    Introversion is one of the most misunderstood dimensions of personality. Many people are not aware that the original definition of introversion, as posed by Carl Jung, is not how the term is used in modern personality psychology. Jung equated introversion with "inwardly directed psychic energy". Even the modern Wikipedia page for Extraversion and Introversion defines introversion as "the state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life."



    Just as contemporary science concludes, in Neojungian Typology Low attention (-LA) is a suffix added to type to mean that the type has less attention to external stimuli. This is because the default-mode network (DMN) and frontoparietal network (FPN) and dorsal attention network (DAN) and ventral attention network (VAN) is used more simultaneously.

    The low attention (-LA) type will not use their FPN, DAN and VAN to the extent as types with high attention (-HA). All types do daydream when they are in situations where focused external attention is not neccesary, but types with low attention will never focus so much on external environment as types with high attention. So the low attentive types have a more detached relationship with the external stimuli.

    A person can also be ambiverted in Neojungian Typology by adding Moderate Attention (-MA) as a type suffix.