Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While almost half of those children tested by Kagan exhibited extreme shyness or boldness, the majority of children were somewhere in between, neither totally inhibited nor totally uninhibited...
...must realize that there are very extreme ends of shyness, and only at the very ends is shyness resistant of change," Gardner said. "Most of us are in the middle. Furthermore, there are contrasting effects within a family. Thus, a bolder child is more likely to develop in the presence of a shy sibling...
Kagan has developed a series of tests that define the physiological and psychological essence of shyness...
...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...