Word: shyness
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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...
Professor of Education Howard E. Gardner '65 agreed with this finding, saying, "If we put shy children in an environment where a set behavior can be transformed early, shyness can be attenuated. No one is marked at birth...
Half of the children that were inhibited at four months showed the same characteristics of shyness when they started school, and only a quarter will carry the behavioral characteristic into adulthood. The remaining three-quarters of the children who were originally shy will not be excessively introverted in adulthood, Kagan said...
This is more than understandable, given Connery's inherent stalwartness and the entrancing shyness and sexiness Pfeiffer commingles in her performance. But given glasnost and whatever undertakings the producers made in order to be able to shoot on location in the Soviet Union, one never feels that Barley and Katya are deeply menaced by any counterespionage agency. Where are the spooks in leather trench coats? Where are the deep-shadowed alleys just waiting for a chase? Where is the hope for some kind of cinematically pleasing action to interrupt the endless rounds of talk that preoccupy this film...