The Shy Stalinism

The shy prefer familiar congeners.

The shy-bold continuum is both a fundamental aspect of human behavior and a relatively stable behavioral trait for many other species. Here we assessed whether shy individuals prefer familiar congeners, taking the European sea bass, a recently domesticated fish showing similar behavioral responses to wild fish, as a model to better understand the inter-individual variability in social behavior ...

Once bitten, twice shy.

The Shy Mayor : Private Badges in GeoSo

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Are Galaxies Shy ?

Until 1996, there was little evidence that most galaxies were “shy”, i.e. that they would hide their stars behind a veil of dust and turn red when forming stars, radiating the bulk of their luminosity in the infrared (IR) at a given epoch of their history. Ten years before, IRAS had unveiled a population of luminous IR galaxies exhibiting such a “shy” behavior, the so-called LIGs and ULIGs (wit...