difference between introversion/intraversion and extroversion/extraversion?

Amy Seng

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Nov 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/7/99

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hi... i was just wondering the difference between these two sets of
classifications. I remember someone saying that one spelling was for
the personality types and the other was for cognitive styles or
something like that. Is this true?

Dave Wicker

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Nov 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/7/99

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Extraversion or extravert has not really be used for a while. Try
extratensive.

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Mark Morin

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Nov 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/7/99

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Dave Wicker wrote:
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> Extraversion or extravert has not really be used for a while. Try
> extratensive.

I thought this term was pretty much unique to Exner's scoring system for
the Rorschach.

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Dave Wicker

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Nov 7, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/7/99

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Damn! Forgot that again!!

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Barbara J Wright

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Nov 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/10/99

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Hi Amy... :-)

Intraverted is how we are... Introverted is how we "present."

Extroversion, again, is how we are... Extroverted is how we "present."

Hope this helps!

Barbara J Wright

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Nov 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/10/99

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P. S. I am an Intraverted Extrovert.

Steve Sauve

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Nov 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/10/99

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> Intraverted is how we are... Introverted is how we "present."
>
> Extroversion, again, is how we are... Extroverted is how we "present."

Interesting... Tell me if I understand you correctly: intraversion and
extraversion are "core" traits, while intro/extroversion are situational.
I've never heard this, which I find troublesome given that I just got my
Honours BA a month ago. :-) Is there a particular psychologist credited
with this distinction?

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Nov 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/11/99

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>Barbara J Wright <b...@fuse.net> wrote in message
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>> Intraverted is how we are... Introverted is how we "present."
>>

>> Extraversion, again, is how we are... Extroverted is how we "present."

Hmm. I just completed the official qualification workshop for MBTI
last July. The class was taught by two PhDs, one of whom wrote the
bulk of the current official MBTI manual (Naomi Quenk is her name).
Not once did anyone mention this concept of intro/intra and extro/extra.

My Websters dictionary does not list either intraversion or extraversion
as a word, and the thesaurus on my PC does not recognize them either.

Since my newsreader did not present the earlier postings on this thread,
I don't really know the context of this statement. Are we talking about
MBTI or some other system? If MBTI is the subject, can someone please
post or send to me some references about this concept?

There is an MBTI level II, which divides each of the four pairs of
preferences into five subcategories. With this questionnaire you can
get a "gregarious introvert" but there is no "extraverted introvert."

I'd just like some clarification before I make a judgment here.

Ken Ewing
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Michelle Lynne Goodfellow

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Nov 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/12/99

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Whoops, got that backwards. ExtrAversion, IntrOversion.

MLG

Michelle Lynne Goodfellow wrote in message
<80edl3$g91$1...@mur2.odyssey.on.ca>...

>Actually, Jung only used the terms intraversion and extroversion. No
>intra/intro extra/extro distinction. Someone's just making spelling errors.
>
>MLG
>
>

>Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote in message ...

>>[Steve Sauve]
>>
>>| Interesting... Tell me if I understand you correctly: intraversion and
>>| extraversion are "core" traits, while intro/extroversion are
situational.
>>| I've never heard this, which I find troublesome given that I just got my
>>| Honours BA a month ago. :-) Is there a particular psychologist
>credited
>>| with this distinction?
>>
>>Carl Gustav Jung, I presume. other psychologists would say we are what
>>we present, and that the concept «core self» is bogus.
>>
>>

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>>Rolf Lindgren, |
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>>cand.psychol. |

Steve Sauve

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Nov 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/12/99

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Caught that spelling mistake. :-) That was my original reply way back
at the beginning of this ridiculously long thread: Introvert and Extravert
are the accepted spellings, although extrovert is in my Webster's New World
Dictionary (not to mention that it's how I spelled the word until 3rd year).
I've never seen the word intravert until this thread, though, and I can't
find it anywhere but here. I'd wager that extrOvert started as a spelling
mistake, too, but it was such a common one that it became part of the
language (I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but YES,
sometimes a commonly misspelled word has the improper version added to the
lexicon). If anyone on this newsgroup is still in University, many English
profs have etymological dictionaries, and you could settle all this
silliness once and for all.

Oh yeah, for those who don't know, etymology is the study of word origins
and usages.

---Steve Sauve

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Michelle Lynne Goodfellow

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Steve Sauve wrote in message <80i9ia$2...@enews3.newsguy.com>...

>Caught that spelling mistake. :-) That was my original reply way back
>at the beginning of this ridiculously long thread: Introvert and Extravert
>are the accepted spellings, although extrovert is in my Webster's New World
>Dictionary (not to mention that it's how I spelled the word until 3rd
year).
>I've never seen the word intravert until this thread, though, and I can't
>find it anywhere but here. I'd wager that extrOvert started as a spelling
>mistake, too, but it was such a common one that it became part of the
>language (I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but YES,
>sometimes a commonly misspelled word has the improper version added to the
>lexicon).

Another example would be "anorectic" and "anorexic". The first is the
correct way to make an adjective from the Latin noun "anorexia", and was in
common use earlier in this century, before anorexia nervosa became such a
widespread disorder. In the last three decades the frequent use of the
incorrect spelling "anorexic" has allowed this misspelling to become the
accepted adjective.

MLG