Have you ever wondered why some animals seem to vanish into thin air the second a person walks by? It's not magic or ...

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 ...

A recent study provides new evidence on the neural basis of shyness, suggesting a link between this personality trait and spontaneous activity in the cerebellum. The research indicates that the ...

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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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 ...

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, ...

An old video of Elon Musk that has recently resurfaced sheds light on how his reluctance to approach people after a job ...

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 ...