When shyness is more than shyness: One in 10 "shy" kids may have social phobia. Oct. 17, 2011— -- Many kids go through a shy or "awkward" phase at some point in adolescence, but shyness can ...

Shyness can truly hold people back–partly because those who are shy tend to avoid public situations and speaking up, and partly because they experience so much chronic anxiety. If that’s you, take ...

The Heimlich maneuver, in the nearly 50 years since Dr. Henry Heimlich established its protocol, has been credited with saving many lives. But not, perhaps, as many as it might have. The maneuver, ...

Are introversion and shyness the same thing? When I interviewed Wellesley College psychologist Jonathan Cheek, he said it depends on who you ask. So I next asked Louis A. Schmidt, director of the ...

Shyness can influence the quality of an ongoing relationship -- even one as important as marriage -- according to a new study. Shyness can influence the quality of an ongoing relationship -- even one ...

One institute seeks to treat serious shyness before it becomes a problem. Aug. 24, 2007 — -- At 15 years old, Bernie Carducci was shy. Most social situations, no matter how casual, would result ...

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If you Google “famous introverts,” you’ll get an interesting list of luminaries: Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks, Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Eleanor Roosevelt, Al Gore, Marissa Mayer, Abraham Lincoln, ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. Sometimes trees can be a ...