[closedloop129]

>[extrovert] children who grow up in more prosperous homes are less likely to face the kind of stressful events that undermine self-confidence.

Is extrovert synonymous with confident or that strongly correlated? Why should an introvert not be confident in themselves and their abilities?

>Extraversion [...] is the state of primarily obtaining gratification from outside oneself.

>Introversion is the state of being predominantly interested in one's own mental self

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion

[edding4500]

I would assume that extroverts, trying to obtain gratification from outside themselves, boast out with ideas, opinions and the like much more easily than introverts and are thus perceived as more confident. Confident as in "I am confident in myself, hence I say this thing out loud". An introvert may say that thing out in his/her head and leave it at that, so no perception can be made from outside.

[moffkalast]

And on the other hand if you're an unconfident extrovert it would also keep you from boasting with ideas out loud. As both of these cases look mostly the same from the outside, and I would speculate it leads this sort of introvert == unconfident general view.

[helsinkiandrew]

I wonder if extroverts appear more confident to others and the feedback makes them more confident.

[onos]

With these devotions, I’d happily pick to be an introvert.