Adaptive Shyness: Multiple Perspectives on Behavior and Development

Section 1. Historical Perspectives.- Chapter 1. The study of behavioral inhibition and temperamental shyness across four academic generations.- Section 2. Developmental Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Adaptive shyness: A developmental perspective.- Chapter 3. Development and psychophysiological correlates of positive shyness from infancy to childhood.- Chapter 4. Shy but getting by: Protective factors in the links between childhood shyness and socio-emotional functioning.- Section 3. Biological Perspectives.- Chapter 5. Inhibited children in a social world: Transactional and interactive processes.- Chapter 6. The biology of shyness and adapting to threat.- Chapter 7. Shyness, adaptation, human contact.- Section 4. Cultural Perspectives.- Chapter 8. The shy child adapting to the challenges of school.- Chapter 9. Shyness and sociability revisited.- Chapter 10. Quiet strengths: Adaptable introversion in the work place.- Section 5. Cultural Perspectives.- Chapter 11. Shyness and adaptation across cultures.- Chapter 12.The many faces of shyness in childhood across cultural contexts.- Chapter 13. Perspective on shyness as adaptive from Indigenous Peoples of North America.- Section 6. Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives.- Chapter 14. Comparative perspectives on temperament and personality in human and nonhuman animals.- Chapter 15. Evolution of adaptive individual differences in nonhuman animals.- Chapter 16. Why do people have painful feelings? An evolutionary tale of misery and woe.