“…The developmental context determines whether an individual who is predisposed to being particularly sensitive to threat will develop trait social anxiety. That is, the interaction between genetic and environmental factors produces trait social anxiety, through multiple developmental pathways (Degnan & Fox, 2007;Detweiler, Comer, Crum, & Albano, 2014;Rubin, Coplan, & Bowker, 2009;Schmidt, Polak, & Spooner, 2005). In addition, the likelihood that an individual will develop trait social anxiety will increase with each environmental factor present during development (e.g., Simon et al, 2009).…”