Psychologists Link Premature Birth To Withdrawn Personality
Saturday, August 1, 2015 - 21:30
in Psychology & Sociology
A new paper links adults born very premature with being socially withdrawn and displaying signs of autism. The work was led by Professor Dieter Wolke at the department of psychology and Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. He and coauthors correlate adults born very preterm scored highly for displaying a socially withdrawn personality, indicated by autistic features, neuroticism, introversion and decreased risk taking. read more