Day: February 11, 2017

“Shyness is very difficult to define precisely because it’s so contradictory” | New Humanist

“Shyness is very difficult to define precisely because it’s so contradictory” | New Humanist You write about the changing perceptions of shyness. It wasn’t viewed as a negative trait in the 18th and 19th centuries – why not? They tended to talk then about “constitutional shyness”. In other words, shyness was seen as a misfortune…

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