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...what he describes as "the most exciting" results of his 30 years of research on shyness, Starch Professor of Psychology Jerome Kagan has released findings suggesting that the tendency for shyness is an inherited biological trait that can be detected in infants as young as four months...
...most significant discoveries of Kagan's work is that shyness in children is a non-deterministic character trait. Kagan, who is the chair of the Psychology Department, found that inherited shyness may be alleviated in the childhood years by environmental factors, but that uninhibited children were less likely to show behavioral changes...
...British-born Hooley, 35, has researched the effect that family relationships have on the recovery of patients with mental illness, according to Kagan...
...brought to the department excellent teaching, a broad mind, wonderful talents, and courses that are important and interesting to undergraduates," Kagan said...
...performed very important analysis of the social conditions that patients with mental illness return to in order to determine whether they make a recovery or return to the hospital," Kagan said...