A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF SHYNESS AN D GAZE

Sixty-four women, either scoring high or low on Trait Shyness Scale, w ere selected From a population of 130 junior college students. An expe riment with a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design was conducted, with shyness ( high vs. low), interviewer gaze (high vs. low), and interviewer sex (m an vs. woman) as its factors. Sitting directly in front of a subject, an interviewer read questions one by one from a list. Two trained judg es coded the subject's gaze and speech through a one-way mirror, and l ater by watching videotaped records. Results showed that high shyness persons gazed less than the others in the high interviewer-gaze condit ion. In addition, high shyness women tended to tall, less than low shy ness women.