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Hipson, W.E., Coplan, R.J. (2018). Social Withdrawal in Childhood. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2447-1
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