{"id":8610,"date":"2005-09-27T15:39:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/09\/27\/shrinking-violets.html"},"modified":"2005-09-27T15:39:41","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T22:39:41","slug":"shrinking_viole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/shrinking_viole.html","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking Violets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The studies and science behind shyness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a study published early this year, Dr. Marco Battaglia of San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy, recruited 49 third- and fourth-grade children and administered questionnaires to rank them along a commonly accepted shyness scale. He showed each child a series of pictures of faces exhibiting joy, anger or no emotion at all and asked them to identify the expressions. The children who scored high on the shyness meter, it turned out, had a consistently hard time deciphering the neutral and the angry faces.<\/p>\n

What’s more, when he recorded brain activity using electroencephalograms, Battaglia found that those with higher scores for shyness had lower levels of activity in the cortex, where sophisticated thought takes place. That suggested higher levels of activity in the more primitive amygdala, where anxiety and alarm are sounded. Shy children, Battaglia concluded, may simply be less adept at reading the facial flickers other kids use as social cues. Unable to rely on those helpful signals, they tend to go on high alert, feeling anxious about any face they can’t decipher. “The capacity to interpret faces is one of the most important prerequisites for balanced relationships,” Battaglia says.<\/p>\n

Thats … very interesting.<\/p>\n

(via Kottke<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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