“The typical introvert is a quiet retiring sort of person, introspective, fond of books rather than people; he is reserved and distant except to intimate friends. He tends to plan ahead, “looks before he leaps,” Although Eysenck’s picture of the personality traits appears to be unbiased, there is a generally observable tendency in various environments such as schools, peer groups, work places and many others to favor the extroverted behavior. As is pointed out by Ausubel (1968), in the classroom situation for instance, “we have succumbed to the cult of the warm, outgoing, amiable and extroverted personality, and have tended to regard any deviation from this standard as axiomatically undesirable from a mental hygiene standpoint” (1968, p.
