Shyness

Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development

Volumn 1-3, Issue , 2008, Pages 146-153

  Asendorpf, J B ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attachment; Behavioral inhibition; Personality; Shyness; Social anxiety; Social isolation; Social withdrawal; Temperament; Unsociability; Wariness to strangers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855496175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012370877-9.00144-4     Document Type: Chapter

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