What are the effects of shyness on someone's life?

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Shyness: The Causes and Effects on an Individual`s Life
When a person tends to avoid social interaction and always seem withdrawn due to an anxiety of being negatively evaluated in these social situations then the person according to psychologists can be said to be shy. There are several causes of shyness and each cause is unique to different people.
Even though scientists have not yet shown that there is a gene for shyness, there are arguments that claim that children, for example, can learn the shyness behavior from parents. Children may also model themselves along with their parents` ways of handing some situations too. Statistics have shown that shy parents have shy children.
Another cause for shyness has been attributed to an individual`s difficulty to cope with new environments and social situations. When these individuals are constantly exposed to these new situations but cannot cope then they tend to withdraw themselves from the activities being carried in these places.