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Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?

Posted on June 26, 2011 by ericengstrom Posted in UncategorizedTagged DSM, Shyness

An Opinion Piece in today’s NY Times on Shyness and DSM by Susan Cain argues that shyness has evolutionary advantages and shouldn’t be unnecessarily pathologized: http://tinyurl.com/64w9exx

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