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"In developing this market they may not be alone in the exploitation of such, as many may be wealthy, eccentric, high achievers, often do, and driven by a madness they suffer from an anxiety to succeed."
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.171.220.20 ( talk) 20:25, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
This article should not link to the Introversion article. Such things only serve to perpetuate stereotypes regarding introverted people.
Introversion has nothing to do with shyness, and the vast majority of introverts are not shy.
Shyness is not a temporary state whereas introversion is permanent sort of nature. Everyone is shy at some point of time, that explains all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.124.230 ( talk) 10:21, 5 June 2009 (UTC) That makes no sense. You're saying shyness is not temporary, and introverion is not temporary, but you used 'whereas'. And that explains nothing.
The links here seem to be a little value. We need fewer, higher quality links that are actually useful. However, as soon as I removed one of the worst of the bunch (shyunited forums), it got reverted. We need to do SOMETHING, not just leave it the way it is. Someone else please come up with some suggestions. -- Barrylb 04:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
I don't get why the shyunited forum was such a bad useless link. I'm not as familiar with wikipedia as you but I use the forum daily and it has helped me with my shyness talking to others who are also shy. Maybe its not a scientific description of shyness or whatever but it helps. Please give your arguement as to why it should be deleted. Bodhi395 19:20, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I removed the link to http://www.social-anxiety.com/ as it is just an ad for a $300 CD. ChewyCaligari 21:25, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone create a simple English version of the article?-- Luke Elms 01:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
A helpful link for this topic might be
www.socialanxietyassist.com.au Shyness And Social Anxiety Treatment Australia Information on social anxiety, shyness, depression, blushing, sweating, public speaking anxiety and more
The statement is untrue, especially in the Midwestern states. This trait is not exclusive to the USA as a whole. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.189.5.201 ( talk) 16:04, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
The statement that American culture tends to favor individualism and looks negatively at shyness is probably true, but the reality of shyness shouldn't be limited solely to how America views the phenomenom. In effect, the article is not about "America and Shyness".
By contrast, Chinese/Asian cultures tend to view shyness in a very favorable light, often considering shy person as having wisdom, individuality and uniqueness of character. Therefore at the very least, I suggest including this contrasting cultural view on shyness for a more balanced approach. ( Ronsword ( talk) 22:19, 27 July 2008 (UTC))
I suggest removing the statement "in more forgiving arenas" as a counter reference to the first statement "in some cultures". While some cultures do, indeed, look down on shyness as a behavior (and not necessarily on shy people, per se), other cultures look up to those who are shy; the latter are not necessarily 'forgiving' of shy people and in fact, may represent a different cultural paradigm which holds shy people in high esteem. Regards, ( Ronsword ( talk) 16:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC))
"So we might recognize as individuals, these elements in our personality, as a withdrawal from our public, the people we know, who might judge us, in fact they may be judging themselves, because they may suffer from the same." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.43.45 ( talk) 01:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC) If you read it several times, it makes sense, but that's definitely an opinion, and does not belong in an encyclopedia article (since it's not a quote, anyways.)
This article appears to have used the "Internet Shyness FAQ" (formerly the alt.support.shyness FAQ) http://www.shyFAQ.com as a source of research, based on the fact that it uses at least one unique phrase "crippling physical manifestations of uneasiness" directly from the FAQ. The use of the phrase in the alt.support.shyness FAQ goes back over ten years so it predates the use in this Wikipedia entry or elsewhere online. Therefore, it seems only fair to include a link to http://www.shyFAQ.com as a reference. TimMagic ( talk) 15:31, 30 July 2011 (UTC)TimMagic
The following, from the Shyness as pathology section, looks like a plausible reference to a serious, interesting and relevant article about the medicalisation of shyness, but is hopelessly garbled. Where's the full reference to the article? Is it by one author (Jenny Hope) or two (surnames Hope and Jenny) – and, either way, why is the author (singular) then referred to as "he"? The first quote is meaningless out of context: is it meant to be the author's own view of a reasonable medical diagnosis, or (as I suspect) the author's prediction of the extremes to which the current tendency to medicalise shyness might lead? In the second quote, is the date 1940 actually an error for 1840, which seems much more likely? The messing up of quotation marks makes it unclear whether the Peter Kinderman quote is from the same article or not: if it isn't, what's the source for that? If anyone has access to the article, could they sort this out.
Thanks. GrindtXX ( talk) 16:51, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
This study is explaining the correlation between gender, shyness, and social acceptance. This study assessed two hundred and thirty-one youths shyness and social acceptance at two separate times; one year apart. The study analyzed both male and female youths by
assigning them professional tests but for this article I will only discuss the shyness one. Teachers were told to use the "Shyness subscale of the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire" (Capaldi and Rothbart 1992). This study had a specific emphasis on social situations. Questions tapped the youth's general shyness, quietness and lack of social initiative. Data from this showed a majority of .92 for reports of shyness. It is also noteworthy that boys were rated by teachers as being more shy than girls in the present study.
- I'm not sure if everyone will be able to access this file because you need to first purchase a license, which King's has so if anyone needs to relate to it I can put it up somewhere? Not sure how to exactly cite properly as well if someone could help me with this?
- Also I would say that with this information we could start a new sub-heading stating "Shyness in adolescents".
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―I have decided to edit this article for Psych 2410A at King’s 2012‖
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―I have decided to edit this article for Psych 2410A at King’s 2012‖
Srovithi (
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I have decided to edit this article for Psych 2410A at King’s 2012‖ LannyFisher ( talk) 04:20, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- Remove unsure language in order to make the article sound more absolute.
- There are many uncited facts displayed in the article, I plan to either remove them or find evidence that supports the facts.
- I plan to introduce and display the results of a study done correlating the symptons of illness in children and shyness.
- I plan to reference the work done on the difference in individual shyness in infants in this paper: Daniels, Denise., & Plomin, Robert. (1985). Origins of Individual Differences in Infant Shyness. Developmental Psychology
Dsmit89 ( talk) 20:41, 30 September 2012 (UTC)Dsmit89
I intend to improve this article in the following ways:
-I will be referring to an empirical study on day length during pregnancy in Northern and Southern hemispheres as a predictor for shyness in children. Stephen L. Gortmaker; Jerome Kagan; Avshalom Caspi; Phil A. Silva. (1997). Daylength during pregnancy and shyness in children: Results from Northern and Southern hemispheres. Developmental Psychobiology.
-I will also be referring to an empirical cross-cultural study on the contrast of attitudes toward shyness in individualistic and collectivist societies. Aizawa, Yuki; Whatley, Mark A. (2006). Gender, Shyness, and Individualism-Collectivism: A Cross-Cultural Study. Race, Gender and Class. It is hoped that this will encourage further improvements that will attempt to mitigate systematic bias in the Wiki article.
-I will attempt to assign proper citations to those areas in need, by using Western University's research resources to find peer-reviewed, empirical articles that back up the claims in the Wikipedia article. If I am able to determine with reasonable certainty that any of the un-cited claims are inaccurate, I will remove such claims.
LannyFisher (
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Three steps I am taking to improve this article:
- I will attempt to improve the articles grammar and citations, basically the overall finished product.
- I will be referring to an empirical journal related to shyness in young children. Miller, Scott R. Mothers’ and Fathers’ Responsive Problem Solving with Early Adolescents: Do Gender, Shyness, and Social Acceptance Make a Difference? (2009).
- I will attempt to use information learned throughout my class, readings, articles and personal experience to help edit, cite, and help make the article overall presentable to my class, professor, and the Wikipedia community.
Srovithi (
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Society defines "normal." Shyness was a term not coined or considered an illness until the 1960s. [1]
Jump up ^ 1966-, Lane, Christopher, (2007). Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124460. OCLC 154689037. Elp3h.emily.powell ( talk) 02:35, 29 September 2018 (UTC)-- Elp3h.emily.powell ( talk) 02:35, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
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The same things that were said about "Shyness and illness" can be said about "Gender, Shyness and Social Acceptance". Only really special and seminal studies, that have made a major contribution to the development of the scientific knowledge about a subject should be cited here. Please summarize. Lova Falk talk 12:55, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Today I removed two more empirical studies. Do I understand correctly that adding an empirical study is part of their assignment on Wikipedia? In that case, it is a real problem, because Wikipedia is not the right place to describe empirical studies. This is an encyclopedia! It should describe accepted knowledge, preferably from secondary sources! I find it a very frustrating situation, first for the students to see their work removed, and also for us, who need to clean up several articles. Lova Falk talk 09:01, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Okay, this is the the first time I EVER that I've heard the claim that shy people are perceived as being less intelligent. Usually a hear the exact opposite, shy people are perceived as being more intelligent, and a quick search on google appears to confirm that for at least people on the internet. I think something about that should be adressed in the article, maybe it's just that everyone on the internet is an introvert, but that section is from an extrovert perspective, I don't know. Anyway, if the perception that shy people are perceived as less intelligent is brought up than equally the perception that shy people are more intelligent should als be brought up as it's also culturally prevalent to a significant degree. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.228.108.125 ( talk) 16:24, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
I am a Senior in Clemson University's Psychology program.This semester for my Psychology Laboratory we are modifying articles in order to bump them to featured article status. My goal for this article is to add additional citations and give the article a more worldwide view. I also want to delete the part on mercury poisoning, seeing as I feel this has nothing to do with the article. Csing ( talk) 15:13, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Csing and thank you for your invitation.
With friendly regards! Lova Falk talk 18:30, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
I have added sections on:
- social and behavioral inhibition
- low birthrates in relation to shyness
- Perception of Eastern and Western cultures on shyness-inhibition and
- examples of different cultural views
These changes have been approved by my professor Csing ( talk) 14:38, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
I removed this because Keillor self reports as shy but does not show any of the symptoms. If anything Keillor shows more signs of being a psychopath, he just says that he is shy to be manipulative. Also Keillor is not an expert in the field of psychology so what he says does not matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.103.132.149 ( talk) 16:38, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
There are some biological origins of shyness but there is no part with psychological origins of shyness (with title). I think this is unbalanced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.41.224.172 ( talk) 16:49, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Does anybody else think that the section examining shyness as perceived in Western cultures vs. perception in Eastern cultures is too general?
Perhaps it's that the very notion of a singular Western culture and singular Eastern culture is flawed, but - to me at least - stating that in Western culture shyness is perceived as negative, whilst in Eastern culture it is perceived as being positive, sounds like a broad and frankly unhelpful generalisation. I find it pretty questionable.
For one thing, the section references the text The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal by Kenneth H. Rubin, Robert J. Coplan, which uses as its own reference for all of 'Western culture' North America. Surely there would be variation between Western European, Southern European, Eastern European and North American cultural perception of shyness? So how can a study of North America be used as a representation of all 'Western' civilisation? Similarly, the text uses a study of traditional China to represent all 'Eastern' civilisation - do we not think shyness would be perceived differently in Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, India, Iran etc.?
I think an edit of this section would be appropriate to reflect a less bilateral view (East vs. West). 77.99.12.140 ( talk) 23:19, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
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In the first paragraph, we read the sentence "The primary characteristic of shyness is a largely ego-driven fear of what other people will think of a person's behaviour". This is merely a popular belief about shyness, and no citation is given for any empiricial evidence to support this claim. Vorbee ( talk) 16:30, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
It's the definition of the word. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.200.80.23 ( talk) 18:17, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
The source cited to support that intelligence and shyness aren't correlated explicitly defines "shy" as something completely different from the actual meaning right from the start, so it's invalid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.200.80.23 ( talk) 06:42, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
This article is written from the point of view of shyness as a personality trait. Nevertheless, in normal English it is also used to characterise the behaviour of infant children in the presence of strangers. I've added a link to [Stranger anxiety] at the disambiguation page but I really think that there should be a direct link from the top of this page. Psychological usage is fine, but some help should be given to people who are looking for 'shyness' in one of its ordinary English senses and not just in the narrower psychological sense.