An
individual that studies obsessively for topics that are both relevant and
irrelevant. Lacks social skills and prefers to operate by him/herself to perform certain activities. Is often insecure about their status and will lash out to anyone that remotely seems to threaten his/her actions. Often employs a psychological unconscious defence mechanism called displacement, which "is an unconscious defence mechanism whereby the mind substitutes either a new
aim or a new object for goals felt in their original form to be dangerous or unacceptable". Essentially, he/she will project the ideology to others call such as someone else a nerd.
Person 1: Man, did you hear that Matthew got
top 20 in the national geography competition?
Person
2:
LMAO what a nerd