Originally Posted by
BillyD
Oh puleeeze! That's not the conventional meaning of the term at all.
But you know me, I'm not going to spend time arguing about it. To each his own.
I completely agree that it isn't the popular understanding of the term, but it is the psychologically correct one. And it is the more instructive one. The popular meaning doesn't help you to identify and understand folks that are having trouble dealing with social situations unless the problem is so severe that they are either absent or catatonic (intentional hyperbole). The technical definitions of extrovert and introvert help you to understand what is going on inside folks who are there and are either really turned on or off, respectively.