What's the difference between introverted and nerd?

Introverted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Introvert

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Female sex, greater age, higher severity of episodes, manic or hypomanic episodes recurrent course, and introverted and anancastic personality were factors increasing the rate of treated cases in both samples, as well as familial loading with treated depression.
  • (2) Interviews and psychological tests revealed that CD-patients were introverted with strong connections to their families.
  • (3) The 'introverts' scored significantly highest on the Matrices, but the scores of the 'ambiverts' were lowest.
  • (4) They made the hypothesis that if a tranquillizing drug were administered the operative level of neuroticism would be decreased, and as a consequence the level of susceptibility of neurotic extraverts would be raised, and that of neurotic introverts lowered.
  • (5) The hypothesized identity of the dimensions of extraversion-introversion and strength of the nervous system was tested on four groups of nine subjects (neurotic extraverts, stable extraverts, neurotic introverts, stable introverts).
  • (6) The extraverted women gazed longer during listening than did introverted women.
  • (7) Psychological tests showed that all the patients were more neurotic, more introverted, and more obsessional than normal subjects.
  • (8) Remaining types were Betas (15%) and Deltas (4%), both introverted types who avoid leadership positions.
  • (9) In my year, 2012, Susan Cain was doing her introvert talk and everyone kept saying: "Oh she's so brave giving a TED talk when she's an introvert."
  • (10) The selfrating results show that schizophrenics are introverted premorbidly, as compared to control groups; it is assumed that this personality trait will be understood as "schizoid" in non-selfrating.
  • (11) Examination of those items which best accomplish this discrimination indicates that the members of the majority type (approximately 85%, on average, over several studies) have disorders of character, while the members of the minority type (approximately 15%, on average, over several studies) are introverted neurotics.
  • (12) But larger motor potentials preceding the smoking act in introverts indicated a greater involvement of introverts in the smoking act itself.
  • (13) It was hypothesized that time perceptions of extraverts and introverts would differ when their interest in the task was dissimilar.
  • (14) Intended to foster a sense of belonging and being part of a collective endeavour, it instead turned Beijing into a place of introverted islands, separated by competition and mutual distrust.
  • (15) He was shy & introverted & considered to be failing at that age.
  • (16) High levels of introverted hostility were reported by SS patients in relation to the other two groups.
  • (17) The results support the following conclusions: (1) neither personality grouping nor drug treatment during preinduction trials significantly affected KFAE; (2) both types of variables were, however, significantly related to behavior during the postinduction trials; (3) the extraverted subjects showed larger KFAEs than ambiverted and introverted subjects under placebo condition; (4) the extent of KFAE was reduced in extraverted and enhanced in introverted subjects under the influence of the drug; (5) there were significant interactions between the drug treatments and personality variables in effects on KFAE.
  • (18) Results showed that extraverts had a peak time insignificantly later than introverts.
  • (19) The subjects were selected after preliminary testing with the Eysenck Personality Inventory and were classified into three groups: extraverts, ambiverts, and introverts.
  • (20) How do you tell the difference between a Finnish introvert and a Finnish extrovert?

Nerd


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
  • (2) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
  • (3) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
  • (4) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
  • (5) This target audience includes not just those young people taking part in state-sponsored sports and defence training or patriotic youth groups, but also nerds who love western videogames and superheroes.
  • (6) "I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private," he said.
  • (7) Whereas Crow tended to rely on his rhetoric and his street-fighter smarts, Whelan is more of a data nerd – part barrow boy, part actuary.
  • (8) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
  • (9) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
  • (10) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
  • (11) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
  • (12) "Adam had this typical nerd look: belts, tucked-in shirt.
  • (13) There are duelling nerds in sports jackets and a panicky associate producer (inevitably and infuriatingly female) who is smarter than her ditzy persona would have you believe.
  • (14) 2.16pm BST Moyes music I'm something of a music nerd, so do keep the suggestions for Dave's iPod coming.
  • (15) "Really in those early days the web was just for nerds like me, if you wanted some tech advice or needed to find out how to do something.
  • (16) And for those who think interplanetary exploration is just nonsense for space nerds, the same lessons could surely be applied closer to home.
  • (17) So then I grew up and I stopped taking nerd-drugs, and about the same time, Starbucks opened in the UK, whereupon I took to getting double espressos, except they were never big enough.
  • (18) The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.'
  • (19) June 18, 2014 2.13pm BST Paul Doyle has spent the last few hours in a dark corner of the office, nerding it up on Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
  • (20) His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" – people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens.