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.