This book examines three decades of research on behavioral inhibition
(BI), addressing its underlying biological, psychological, and social
markers of development and functioning. It offers a theory-to-practice
overview of behavioral inhibition and explores its cognitive component
as well as its relationship to shyness, anxiety, and social withdrawal.
The volume traces the emergence of BI during infancy through its
occurrences across childhood. In addition, the book details the
biological basis of BI and explores ways in which it is amenable to
environmental modeling. Its chapters explore the neural systems
underlying developmental milestones, address lingering questions (e.g.,
limitations of studying BI in laboratory settings and debatable benefits
of self-regulatory processes), and provide recommendations for future
research.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Animal models of behavioral inhibition.
- Social functioning and peer relationships in BI.
- Attention mechanisms in behavioral inhibition.
- BI and associative learning of fear.
- Behavioral inhibition and prevention of internalizing distress in
early childhood.
- The relations between BI, cognitive control, and anxiety.
Behavioral Inhibition is a must-have resource for researchers,
clinicians, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students across such
fields as developmental psychology, psychiatry, social work, cognitive
and affective developmental neuroscience, child and school psychology,
educational psychology, and pediatrics.
