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Temperament and allergic symptoms
J Kagan1, N Snidman, M Julia-Sellers
1Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Psychosomatic Medicine
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
Two independent studies of the first and second degree relatives of extremely shy versus sociable children revealed greater prevalence of hayfever and social anxiety among the relatives of the former group of children. These data, which are in accord with other research, imply a genetically mediated relation between social anxiety and selected atopic allergies.