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Bringing up bashful baby. Developmental pathways to social phobia.
The Psychiatric clinics of North America - 1 Dec 2001
Stein M B, Chavira D A, Jang K L
Abstract excerpt
Shyness is a risk factor for, or an early manifestation of, more enduring problems with social anxiety. But the majority of shy children do not develop social phobia, and factors that further increase risk are poorly understood, underscoring the complexity of this relationship. Studies uniformly show that social phobia (particularly the generalized subtype) runs in families, and twin studies suggest that a...
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