Association of Behavioral Inhibition with Hair Pigmentation in a European Sample

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Title:	Association of Behavioral Inhibition with Hair Pigmentation in a European Sample
Author:	Resch, Franz; Kaufmann, Claudia; Wiebel, Angelika; Brunner, Romuald; Kagan, Jerome; Moehler, Eva Note: Order does not necessarily reflect citation order of authors.
Citation:	Moehler, Eva, Jerome Kagan, Romauld Brunner, Angelika Wiebel, Claudia Kaufmann, and Franz Resch. 2006. Association of behavioral inhibition with hair pigmentation in a European sample. Biological Psychology 72, no. 3: 344-346.
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Abstract:	Behavioral inhibition, a temperamental trait signalling a predisposition to childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders, is slightly more frequent in America among Caucasian children having blue irises. This paper examines a community sample of 101 German toddlers assessed for behavioral inhibition in a standardized laboratory procedure. Hair pigmentation was found to be significantly associated with behavioral inhibition in the sense that blond children exhibited higher fear scores. As in American samples, blue-eyed children had a higher fear score than did other children, but this difference was not statistically significant.
Published Version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.12.001
Citable link to this page:	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3224739

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