“…During social interactions, they may not dwell on the eye region at all. By this logic, they perform well on discriminating facial identity (a static characteristic) but would miss dynamic cues such as changing emotional expressions (Wieser et al, 2009). Shy children are known to show deficits in classification of emotional facial expression (Battaglia et al, 2004;Melfsen & Florin, 2002;Stirling, Eley, & Clark, 2006;Strand, Cerna, & Downs, 2008) and in accurately identifying emotional facial expressions (Simonian, Beidel, Turner, Berkes, & Long, 2001).…”