{"id":230386,"date":"2026-02-03T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/social-anxiety-has-a-dark-side-that-looks-nothing-like-shyness"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:32:00","slug":"social-anxiety-has-a-dark-side-that-looks-nothing-like-shyness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/social-anxiety-has-a-dark-side-that-looks-nothing-like-shyness","title":{"rendered":"Social anxiety has a \u201cdark side\u201d that looks nothing like shyness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/social-anxiety-has-a-dark-side-that-looks-nothing-like-shyness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified three distinct profiles of social anxiety in adolescents. One surprising group manifests fear of rejection through aggression and grandiosity rather than avoidance, highlighting the complexity of teen mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified three distinct profiles of social anxiety in adolescents. One surprising group manifests fear of rejection through aggression and grandiosity rather than avoidance, highlighting the complexity of teen mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}