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Media Relations

Secret to beating shyness revealed

MSNBC.com
Aug. 8 , 2007

By Melinda Wenner

People can overcome their shyness with preparation followed by slowly engaging themselves in new social situations, according to psychologists. Perhaps it comes as no surprise that one of the world's foremost experts in shyness, Bernardo Carducci, has battled with shyness himself.

Read the entire article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20178762/

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Learn more about the Shyness Research Institute at: http://homepages.ius.edu/special/Shyness/

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