Shyness, the Glossary
Shyness (also called diffidence) is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is around other people.[1]
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A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson, (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was an English essayist, poet and academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Aeon (magazine)
Aeon is a digital magazine of ideas, philosophy and culture.
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Aggression
Aggression is a behavior aimed at opposing or attacking something or someone.
Anxiety
Anxiety is an emotion which is characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. Shyness and Anxiety are emotions.
Anxiety disorder
Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear such that a person's social, occupational, and personal functions are significantly impaired.
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Autism
Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.
Avoidant personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD) or anxious personality disorder is a Cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g.
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Batja Mesquita
Batja Mesquita is a Dutch social psychologist, a cultural psychologist and an affective scientist.
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Behavioural genetics
Behavioural genetics, also referred to as behaviour genetics, is a field of scientific research that uses genetic methods to investigate the nature and origins of individual differences in behaviour.
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Boldness
Boldness is the opposite of shyness.
Camera shyness
Camera shyness is the desire to avoid being photographed or filmed.
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Canadians
Canadians (Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada.
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
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Child
A child is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty.
Child abuse
Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child, especially by a parent or a caregiver.
Chinese people
The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.
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Comfort
Comfort (or being comfortable) is a sense of physical or psychological ease, often characterised as a lack of hardship. Shyness and comfort are emotions.
Confidence
Confidence is the feeling of belief or trust that a person or thing is reliable. Shyness and Confidence are emotions.
Conversation
Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people.
Cortisol
Cortisol is a steroid hormone in the glucocorticoid class of hormones and a stress hormone.
Determinant
In mathematics, the determinant is a scalar-valued function of the entries of a square matrix.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; latest edition: DSM-5-TR, published in March 2022) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a common language and standard criteria.
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Dopamine receptor D4
The dopamine receptor D4 is a dopamine D2-like G protein-coupled receptor encoded by the gene on chromosome 11 at 11p15.5.
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Egoism
Egoism is a philosophy concerned with the role of the self, or, as the motivation and goal of one's own action.
Embarrassment
Embarrassment or awkwardness is an emotional state that is associated with mild to severe levels of discomfort, and which is usually experienced when someone commits (or thinks of) a socially unacceptable or frowned-upon act that is witnessed by or revealed to others. Shyness and Embarrassment are emotions.
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.
Erethism
Erethism, also known as erethismus mercurialis, mad hatter disease, or mad hatter syndrome, is a neurological disorder which affects the whole central nervous system, as well as a symptom complex, derived from mercury poisoning. Erethism is characterized by behavioral changes such as irritability, low self-confidence, depression, apathy, shyness and timidity, and in some extreme cases with prolonged exposure to mercury vapors, by delirium, personality changes and memory loss.
Extraversion and introversion
Extraversion and introversion are a central trait dimension in human personality theory.
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Eye contact occurs when two people or animals look at each other's eyes at the same time.
Fear
Fear is an intensely unpleasant primal emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Shyness and Fear are emotions.
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Feeling
According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; and feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them".
GABA
GABA (gamma Aminobutyric acid, γ-Aminobutyric acid) is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the developmentally mature mammalian central nervous system.
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Gene
In biology, the word gene has two meanings.
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Glutamate decarboxylase
Glutamate decarboxylase or glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) is an enzyme that catalyzes the decarboxylation of glutamate to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and carbon dioxide.
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Haya (Islam)
Haya (Hayāʾ, roughly corresponding to "bashfulness", "decency", "modesty", "shyness") is an Arabic word that means "natural or inherent, shyness and a sense of modesty".
Hypothesis
A hypothesis (hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
Inclusion (disability rights)
Inclusion, in relation to persons with disabilities, is defined as including individuals with disabilities in everyday activities and ensuring they have access to resources and opportunities in ways that are similar to their non-disabled peers.
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Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England.
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List of human positions
Human positions refer to the different physical configurations that the human body can take.
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Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
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Maturity (psychological)
In psychology, maturity can be operationally defined as the level of psychological functioning (measured through standards like the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) one can attain, after which the level of psychological functioning no longer increases much with age.
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Medicalization
Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment.
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Mercury poisoning
Mercury poisoning is a type of metal poisoning due to exposure to mercury.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function.
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Panic
Panic is a sudden sensation of fear, which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and frantic agitation consistent with a fight-or-flight reaction. Shyness and Panic are emotions.
Panic attack
Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear and discomfort that may include palpitations, sweating, chest pain or chest discomfort, shortness of breath, trembling, dizziness, numbness, confusion, or a feeling of impending doom or of losing control.
People skills
People skills are patterns of behavior and behavioral interactions.
Phenotype
In genetics, the phenotype is the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).
Psychological abuse
Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or psychological violence, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to a behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder amongst other psychological problems.
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking is a 2012 nonfiction book written by American author and speaker Susan Cain.
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Selective mutism
Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is otherwise capable of speech becomes unable to speak when exposed to specific situations, specific places, or to specific people, one or multiple of which serving as triggers.
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Self-esteem
Self-esteem is confidence in one's own worth, abilities, or morals.
Sensory processing sensitivity
Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a temperamental or personality trait involving "an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social, and emotional stimuli".
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Serotonin
Serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is a monoamine neurotransmitter.
Smile
A smile is a facial expression formed primarily by flexing the muscles at the sides of the mouth.
Snob
Snob is a pejorative term for a person who feels superior due to their social class, education level, or social status in general;De Botton, A. (2004), Status Anxiety.
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Social anxiety is the anxiety and fear specifically linked to being in social settings (i.e., interacting with others).
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Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impairing ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life.
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Social inhibition is a conscious or subconscious avoidance of a situation or social interaction.
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Social learning theory is a theory of social behavior that proposes that new behaviors can be acquired by observing and imitating others.
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In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and groups.
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Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network.
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Susan Cain
Susan Horowitz Cain (born 1968) is an American writer and lecturer.
Thalia C. Eley
Thalia Catherine Eley is a Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry's MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London.
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The American Journal of Psychiatry
The American Journal of Psychiatry is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of psychiatry, and is the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association.
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Trait theory
In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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5-HTTLPR
5-HTTLPR (serotonin-transporter-linked promoter region) is a degenerate repeat (redundancy in the genetic code) polymorphic region in SLC6A4, the gene that codes for the serotonin transporter.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyness
Also known as Bashfulness, Diffidence, Diffident, Genetics of Shyness, Shy, Shy behavior, Shying, Social shyness.
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