The Handbook of Solitude : Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone (Hardcover, 2 ed)

I. HISTORICAL & THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1. Something Old and Something New: Historical and Recent Perspectives on the Study of Solitude *

Robert J. Coplan (Carleton University, Canada)

Julie C. Bowker (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA)

Larry J. Nelson (Brigham Young University, USA)

2. Social Withdrawal in Childhood: History and Theory *

Kenneth Rubin (University of Maryland, USA)

3. An Attachment Perspective on Loneliness and the Need to Belong

Mario Mikulincer (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel)

Phillip R. Shaver (University of California Davis, USA)

4. Neuroscientific and Evolutionary Perspectives on Shyness and Social Withdrawal *

Louis Schmidt (McMaster University, Canada)

5. Revisiting the Benefits of Solitude *

Evangelia Galanaki (University of Athens, Greece)

6. Cultural Perspectives on the Study of Solitude *

Xinyin Chen (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Junsheng Liu (East China Normal University, China)

7. The Quiet Revolution *

Susan Cain

II. SOLITUDE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN

8. Positive and Negative Expressions of Shyness in Infancy and Childhood *

Cristina Colonnesi (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

9. The Causes and Consequences of Playing Alone in Childhood

Robert J. Coplan (Carleton University, Canada)

10. Peer Rejection in Childhood

Drew Nesdale (Griffith University, Australia)

Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Griffith University, Australia)