Section 1. Historical Perspectives
Chapter 1. The study of behavioral inhibition and temperamental shyness across four academic generations
Section 2. Developmental Perspectives
Chapter 2. Adaptive shyness: A developmental perspective
Chapter 3. Development and psychophysiological correlates of positive shyness from infancy to childhood
Chapter 4. Shy but getting by: Protective factors in the links between childhood shyness and socio-emotional functioning
Section 3. Biological Perspectives
Chapter 5. Inhibited children in a social world: Transactional and interactive processes
Chapter 6. The biology of shyness and adapting to threat
Chapter 7. Shyness, adaptation, human contact
Section 4. Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 8. The shy child adapting to the challenges of school
Chapter 9. Shyness and sociability revisited
Chapter 10. Quiet strengths: Adaptable introversion in the work place
Section 5. Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 11. Shyness and adaptation across cultures
Chapter 12.The many faces of shyness in childhood across cultural contexts
Chapter 13. Perspective on shyness as adaptive from Indigenous Peoples of North America
Section 6. Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
Chapter 14. Comparative perspectives on temperament and personality in human and nonhuman animals
Chapter 15. Evolution of adaptive individual differences in nonhuman animals
Chapter 16. Why do people have painful feelings? An evolutionary tale of misery and woe.