Rubin K H, Both L
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Dev Psychobiol. 1989 Nov;22(7):717-25. doi: 10.1002/dev.420220706.
Drawing from Rosenberg and Kagan's (1987) finding of an association between iris pigmentation and behavioral inhibition in early childhood, we sought, in the present investigation, to examine the developmental relation between eye color and social withdrawal in kindergarteners and children in grades 2 and 4. In kindergarten and grade 2, blue-eyed children were found to be overrepresented in groups of extremely withdrawn youngsters. No association was found between eye color and withdrawal in grade 4 or between eye color and extreme sociability at any grade. The results were interpreted as suggestive of the increasing role, with age, of social factors in the determination of extremely inhibited behavior.
借鉴罗森伯格和卡根（1987年）关于幼儿期虹膜色素沉着与行为抑制之间存在关联的研究发现，我们在本调查中试图研究幼儿园儿童以及二、四年级学生眼睛颜色与社交退缩之间的发展关系。在幼儿园和二年级，发现蓝眼睛儿童在极度退缩的儿童群体中占比过高。在四年级，未发现眼睛颜色与退缩之间存在关联，在任何年级也未发现眼睛颜色与极度外向之间存在关联。这些结果被解释为表明随着年龄增长，社会因素在决定极度抑制行为方面的作用越来越大。
