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...Kagan said that shy children, whom he terms "inhibited," and bold children, described as "uninhibited," can be distinguished by their physiological reactions to a series of previously unencountered stimuli...
...example, inhibited and uninhibited children react differently when confronted with plastic keys, a cotton swab dipped in alcohol or a tape of a woman's voice saying nonsense syllables, Kagan said...
...What we discovered after 15 years of work," Kagan said, "is that 15 percent of those children we studied inherited the biological trait of being inhibited." According to Kagan, these children were characterized, at four months of age, by being very reactive to the stimuli of his tests, crying and tensing their limbs...
...thirds of the children that exhibited an early tendency of shyness carried this tendency to the age of two years, showing "high motor activity to stimuli." According to Kagan, these children will be "cautious, shy and restrained...
...Kagan began studying psychological characteristics of children in the 1960s, when he gained access to a large set of psychological data on children from birth to age 15. Kagan assessed them at age 20, and the only quality that remained stable was shyness...