Overview
Explores adaptive aspects of shyness from developmental, biological, social, cultural, and evolutionary perspectives
Reviews shyness in traditional context of enduring personality trait, an emotion, and a behavior focusing on negative consequences
Addresses issues relating to social interaction, social inhibition, social anxiety, and social withdrawal
Examines shyness across evolution, animal species, and human culture
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Precedents
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Front Matter
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Biological Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Social Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
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Keywords
- Adaptive individual differences and shyness
- Adaptive shyness and development
- Adaptive shyness in historical contexts
- Adaptive shyness in literary cultures
- Biological perspectives and shyness
- Brain-body adaptation and social behavior
- Cultural perspectives and shyness
- Evolutionary perspectives and shyness
- Functions of positive shyness
- Maladaptation and behaviorally inhibited children
- Positive shyness in infancy and childhood
- Problem solving and psychological processes
- Shy adults in workplace
- Shy children in school and learning environments
- Shyness and adapting to threat
- Shyness as personality trait
- Shyness in Eastern and Western cultures
- Shyness in indigenous and marginalized cultures
- Shyness phenotype and temperament
- Social perspectives and shyness
About this book
This book examines the adaptive aspects of shyness. It addresses shyness as a ubiquitous phenomenon that reflects a preoccupation of the self in response to social interaction, resulting in social inhibition, social anxiety, and social withdrawal. The volume reviews the ways in which shyness has traditionally been conceptualized and describes the movement away from considering it as a disorder in need of treatment. In addition, it examines the often overlooked history and current evidence across evolution, animal species, and human culture, demonstrating the adaptive aspects of shyness from six perspectives: developmental, biological, social, cultural, comparative, and evolutionary.
Topics featured in this book include:- The study of behavioral inhibition and shyness across four academic generations.
- The development of adaptive subtypes of shyness.
- Shy children’s adaptation to academic challenges.
- Adaptiveness of introverts in the workplace.
- The role of cultural norms and values in shaping shyness.
- Perspectives of shyness as adaptive from Indigenous Peoples of North America.
- The role that personality differences play on ecology and evolution.
Adaptive Shyness is a must-have resource for researchers and professors, clinicians and related professionals as well as graduate students in developmental psychology, pediatrics, and social work as well as related disciplines, including social/personality, evolutionary, biological, and clinical child psychology, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Louis A. Schmidt is Professor and Director of the Child Emotion Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University. His research interests are in the areas of temperament, socioemotional development, and developmental psychophysiology. He is particularly interested in how biology and early experiences shape the development of individual differences in temperament in typical and atypical development.
Kristie L. Poole is a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University. Broadly, her research investigates the interaction among temperamental, physiological, and contextual factors involved in socio-emotional development. She is particularly passionate about studying the developmental origins and biological foundations of shyness, as well as investigating factors that maintain or alter shyness across development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adaptive Shyness
Book Subtitle: Multiple Perspectives on Behavior and Development
Editors: Louis A. Schmidt, Kristie L. Poole
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38877-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38876-8Published: 06 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38879-9Published: 06 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38877-5Published: 05 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 327
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Pediatrics, Social Work