Laurie Helgoe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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psychologist and author
Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1960
Place of Birth: Billings, Montana, United States
Profession: psychologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Laurie Helgoe
- Laurie Anne Helgoe (born December 10, 1960) is an American psychologist with a special interest in the relationship between personality development and culture.
- In 2008, her writing revealed that scholarly and popular accounts regarding humans who display the personality traits of introversion and extraversion were flawed, and that, instead of representing a 25-30% of the population, introverts make up 57% of the population.
- The identified flaw was a dated reliance on the early work of Isabel Briggs Myers, and the failure to note results of the latest nationally representative surveys using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a questionnaire used by psychologists to classify human personality traits.
- Helgoe discussed these findings in the book Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life is Your Hidden Strength (Sourcebooks, 2008, 2013). In 2019, Helgoe explored the relationship between narcissism and American political and interpersonal discourse in her book Fragile Bully: Understanding Our Destructive Affair with Narcissism in the Age of Trump (Diversion Books, 2019).
- Paul L.
- Wachtel, Ph.D., distinguished professor at CCNY and integrative psychology theorist, noted that Helgoe's writing provides “seemingly effortless linkage between the intimately psychological and the broadly social and cultural” and that “[s]he probes the depth of individual experience, explores the dynamics of couples and families, and makes plain how all of this derives both from the powerful impact of our earliest experiences and from the equally powerful impact of our current interactions and current social and cultural context.
- In her hands, there is no contradiction in this complex web of causality, just a rich tapestry of interwoven threads that create a life.”
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