Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Cain, Susan (June 25, 2011), Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?, New York Times, New York, Retrieved on 2011-06-26
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  • Folksonomies: shyness shy social phobia social anxiety disorder

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    27 JUN 2011

     Social Norms and Psychological Disorders

    Before 1980, this would have seemed a strange question. Social anxiety disorder did not officially exist until it appeared in that year’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-III, the psychiatrist’s bible of mental disorders, under the name “social phobia.” It was not widely known until the 1990s, when pharmaceutical companies received F.D.A. approval to treat social anxiety with S.S.R.I.’s and poured tens of millions of dollars into advertising its existence. The current version of ...
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    Shyness becomes "Social Anxiety Disorder" because we live in a society that values outgoing people over people who are introspective.

    27 JUN 2011

     Sitters and Rovers

    Once you know about sitters and rovers, you see them everywhere, especially among young children. Drop in on your local Mommy and Me music class: there are the sitters, intently watching the action from their mothers’ laps, while the rovers march around the room banging their drums and shaking their maracas. Relaxed and exploratory, the rovers have fun, make friends and will take risks, both rewarding and dangerous ones, as they grow. According to Daniel Nettle, a Newcastle University evol...
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    Shy people bring much to the cultural table. If everyone were outgoing, society would miss out on the crucial benefits of introspection.

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