Shyness: Perspectives on Research and Treatment

Abstract

1. Introduction.- I. Issues in the Study of Shyness.- 2. The Stanford Shyness Project.- 3. Affective and Behavioral Components of Shyness: Implications for Theory, Measurement, and Research.- 4. A Theory of Shyness.- 5. The Measurement of Shyness.- II. Development of Shyness.- 6. Genetics and Shyness.- 7. Shyness and Temperament.- 8. Shyness in Middle and Late Childhood.- 9. Adolescent Shyness.- 10. Shyness and the Elderly.- III. The Experience of Shyness: Personal Aspects.- 11. Individual Differences in Shyness.- 12. Shyness as a Discrete Emotion.- 13. On Being "Shy like a Fox": A Self-Handicapping Analysis.- 14. Analyzing Shyness: A Specific Application of Broader Self-Regulatory Principles.- IV. The Experience of Shyness: Social Aspects.- 15. Shyness and Self-Presentation.- 16. Positive, Negative, and Balanced Shyness: Self-Definitions and the Reactions of Others.- 17. Shyness, Social Behavior, and Relationships.- 18. A Trait-Situational Analysis of Shyness.- V. Related Constructs.- 19. Anxiety and Interfering Thoughts: Their Effect on Social Interaction.- 20. Physiological, Affective, and Behavioral Implications of Extraversion-Introversion.- 21. Oral Communication Apprehension.- 22. Embarrassment: Causes and Consequences.- VI. Therapeutic Interventions.- 23. Cognitive Therapy for Shyness and Social Anxiety.- 24. Self-Perception Theory and the Treatment of Shyness.- 25. Interpersonal Process Training for Shy Clients.- 26. Rhetoritherapy: The Principles of Rhetoric in Training Shy People in Speech Effectiveness.- 27. Short-Term Group Psychotherapy for Shyness.- Author Index.