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Shyness: What It Is, What To Do About It (1977)

by Philip G. Zimbardo

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Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo's ground-breaking studies have found that there are more than 84 million shy people in America today, including such "secretly shy" celebrities as Carol Burnett, Barbara Walters, and Johnny Carson. In this best-selling book, Dr. Zimbardo analyzes shyness with a personal understanding of the emotions involved. He then presents advice, exercises, and encouragement to help shy people strengthen their social skills and their self-confidence. If you're troubled by shyness, or love someone who is, reading Shyness can open new worlds.… (more)
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Pretty good book on Shyness, but I guess it's outdated now. I was trying to solve my problem and it helped me to understand it, at least. ( )
  kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
All of us want to live a more fulfilling, rich life. But to accomplish this, we must be willing to risk freedom, to break out of our own prisons, to gamble on a new friendship, to take the chance on a love affair. It's not always easy. But there are ways that each of us can build our own self-confidence; there are definite social skills that we can learn; there are specific things that we can do to help the shy people in our lives.

A non-fiction book published in 1977. The author is a psychologist who started by discussing shyness with his students, which led to him studying the causes of shyness and setting up the Stanford Shyness Clinic to help sufferers.

As a life-long prisoner of shyness myself, this book has made me think more about the origins of my own shyness and just how badly it has affected me. ( )
  isabelx | Feb 5, 2011 |
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Marnell, Margaret E.Therapy collaboratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pilkonis, Paul A.Research collaboratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo's ground-breaking studies have found that there are more than 84 million shy people in America today, including such "secretly shy" celebrities as Carol Burnett, Barbara Walters, and Johnny Carson. In this best-selling book, Dr. Zimbardo analyzes shyness with a personal understanding of the emotions involved. He then presents advice, exercises, and encouragement to help shy people strengthen their social skills and their self-confidence. If you're troubled by shyness, or love someone who is, reading Shyness can open new worlds.

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