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Psychology,” Psychological Inquiry 7, no. 4

(1996): 340–44.

7. “To thine own self be true”: Actually, this

advice comes not so much from

Shakespeare as from his character Polonius

in Hamlet.

8. research psychologist named Richard

Lippa: Richard Lippa, “Expressive Control,

Expressive Consistency, and the Correspondence

Between Expressive Behavior and

Personality,” Journal of Behavior and Personality

36, no. 3 (1976): 438–61. Indeed, psychologists

have found that some people

who claim not to be shy in a written questionnaire

are quite adept at concealing

those aspects of shyness that they can control

consciously, such as talking to members

of the opposite sex and speaking for

long periods of time. But they often “leak”

their shyness unwittingly, with tense body

postures and facial expressions.

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