Word: shyness
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Connections between skull shape and personality may be reminiscent of folklore or parlor science, but Harvard researchers have recently found evidence supporting a link between facial shape and genetic tendency toward shyness...
...reason for the correlation between narrow face width and shyness is unclear. High levels of the stress hormone cortisol may affect both timidity and facial shape, Arcus said. Stress to the fetus in the maternal uterine and hereditary factors are other potential causes...
...influence of environment on shyness is an area of continuing research, Arcus said...
...head of the Harvard infant study laboratory, Starch Professor of Psychology Jerome Kagan, said in the Chronicle that 15 to 20 percent of children have a predisposition towards shyness, but that only 9 to 12 percent actually become timid...
Another finding, she said, is that shyness is more common in females than in males. Arcus said that this gender discrepancy may be caused by the fact that girls "appear to be socialized to be more timid, quiet, and introverted...