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Or perhaps you have it yourself? What motivates some teens to gun down fellow students in the hallways or grounds of their schools? Perhaps a characteristic called 'cynical shyness.' This is an extreme form of shyness affecting mostly males that can lead to violent behavior, according to researchers who were to present their findings Saturday evening at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting. 'Cynically shy people are shy people who are motivated toward moving to others, and then they are rejected,' said Bernardo Carducci, lead author of the study and director of the Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast. 'In addition to feelings of anxiety about social situations, cynically shy people, who are a small subclass of shy people, also have feelings of anger and hostility toward others and that comes from this sense of disconnect,' Carducci explained. 'Shyness has more in common with extroversion than with introversion. Shy people truly want to be with others, so they make the effort, but when they are rejected or ostracized, they disconnect. Once you disconnect, it's very easy to start being angry and hate other people. It's you against them, and they become what I call a cult of one. Once you start thinking 'it's me versus them,' then it becomes easy to start hurting these people.'
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