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Being Shy At School, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Irina Kalutskaya
Being Shy At School, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Irina Kalutskaya
Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications
In our commentary on “Bashful boys and coy girls: A review of gender differences in childhood shyness” by Doey et al. (2013) we provide an analysis of limitations to the study of shyness in children as well as future avenues of research that may be fruitful for better understanding implications of shyness in school. Our focus is primarily on shyness in the classroom context, but we first discuss persistent difficulties in the measurement of shyness in childhood. Like Doey et al., our commentary reflects research in samples from the United States and Canada, unless otherwise noted. We then delve into …