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Behavioral Inhibition

Integrating Theory, Research, and Clinical Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Koraly Pérez-Edgar

    1. Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

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  2. Nathan A. Fox

    1. Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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  • Synthesizes research on behavioral inhibition (BI) using biological, psychological, and social markers of development

  • Discusses associations between BI and psychopathology (e.g., anxiety) across childhood and adolescence

  • Outlines the ways in which BI research can shape the design and implementation of evidence-based treatments

  • Examines the role early social development has on adolescent and adult patterns of functioning

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The History and Theory of Behavioral Inhibition

    • Jerome Kagan
    Pages 1-15

  3. Behavioral Inhibition in Nonhuman Primates: The Elephant in the Room

    • John P. Capitanio
    Pages 17-33

  4. Behavioral Inhibition in Rodents: A Model to Study Causes and Health Consequences of Temperament

    • Sonia A. Cavigelli
    Pages 35-58

  5. The Neural Mechanisms of Behavioral Inhibition

    • Johanna M. Jarcho, Amanda E. Guyer
    Pages 59-90

  6. Psychobiological Processes in the Development of Behavioral Inhibition

    • Kristin A. Buss, Jin Qu
    Pages 91-111

  7. The Neurobiology of Behavioral Inhibition as a Developmental Mechanism

    • Jennifer Urbano Blackford, Jacqueline A. Clauss, Margaret M. Benningfield
    Pages 113-134

  8. The Social World of Behaviorally Inhibited Children: A Transactional Account

    • Heather A. Henderson, Emma S. Green, Brittany L. Wick
    Pages 135-155

  9. Peer Relations and the Behaviorally Inhibited Child

    • Kenneth H. Rubin, Matthew G. Barstead, Kelly A. Smith, Julie C. Bowker
    Pages 157-184

  10. The Temperamentally Shy Child as the Social Adult: An Exemplar of Multifinality

    • Kristie L. Poole, Alva Tang, Louis A. Schmidt
    Pages 185-212

  11. Relations between Behavioral Inhibition, Cognitive Control, and Anxiety: Novel Insights Provided by Parsing Subdomains of Cognitive Control

    • George A. Buzzell, Sonya V. Troller-Renfree, Santiago Morales, Nathan A. Fox
    Pages 213-235

  12. Attention Mechanisms in Behavioral Inhibition: Exploring and Exploiting the Environment

    • Koraly Pérez-Edgar
    Pages 237-261

  13. Behavioral Inhibition and the Associative Learning of Fear

    • Gemma Reynolds, Chris Askew, Andy P. Field
    Pages 263-282

  14. Behavioral Inhibition as a Precursor to Psychopathology

    • Daniel N. Klein, Emma E. Mumper
    Pages 283-307

  15. The Biological Bridge Between Behavioral Inhibition and Psychopathology

    • Chad M. Sylvester, Daniel S. Pine
    Pages 309-335

  16. Behavioural Inhibition and the Prevention of Internalising Distress in Early Childhood

    • Ronald M. Rapee, Jordana K. Bayer
    Pages 337-355

  17. Next Steps: Behavioral Inhibition as a Model System

    • Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Nathan A. Fox
    Pages 357-372

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 373-380
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About this book

This book examines three decades of research on behavioral inhibition (BI), addressing its underlying biological, psychological, and social markers of development and functioning. It offers a theory-to-practice overview of behavioral inhibition and explores its cognitive component as well as its relationship to shyness, anxiety, and social withdrawal. The volume traces the emergence of BI during infancy through its occurrences across childhood. In addition, the book details the biological basis of BI and explores ways in which it is amenable to environmental modeling. Its chapters explore the neural systems underlying developmental milestones, address lingering questions (e.g., limitations of studying BI in laboratory settings and debatable benefits of self-regulatory processes), and provide recommendations for future research.

Key areas of coverage include:
  • Animal models of behavioral inhibition.
  • Social functioning and peer relationships in BI.
  • Attention mechanisms in behavioral inhibition.
  • BI and associative learning of fear.
  • Behavioral inhibition and prevention of internalizing distress in early childhood. 
  • The relations between BI, cognitive control, and anxiety.

Behavioral Inhibition is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students across such fields as developmental psychology, psychiatry, social work, cognitive and affective developmental neuroscience, child and school psychology, educational psychology, and pediatrics.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Koraly Pérez-Edgar

  • Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Nathan A. Fox

About the editors

Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Ph.D., is the McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and a Professor of Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her A.B. from Dartmouth College and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Pérez-Edgar’s research focuses on the relations between temperament and psychopathology. In particular, she examines how individual differences in attention can work to ameliorate or exacerbate risks associated with early temperament traits. Dr. Pérez-Edgar is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Nathan A. Fox, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor of Human Development at the University of Maryland. He received his B.A. from Williams College and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Fox is a world-recognized leader in the study of early behavioral inhibition, the impact of early life events on development, and the biological underpinning of development. Dr. Fox is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Behavioral Inhibition

  • Book Subtitle: Integrating Theory, Research, and Clinical Perspectives

  • Editors: Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Nathan A. Fox

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98077-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98076-8Published: 01 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07447-0Published: 19 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98077-5Published: 22 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 380

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Developmental Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Social Work

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