Studies suggest that infants exposed to maternal depression may be less likely to engage socially and experience more negative emotion.

When you can’t understand the messages on other people’s faces, it’s hard to engage socially.

The world of gaming can offer a safe space to interact with the virtual world without feeling the pressure of having to engage socially face-to-face.

He resented the structure of the private boarding school, but was in retrospect grateful for its forcing him to engage socially.

For example, those who are extroverted by nature may deliberately engage socially, particularly with other extroverts like themselves.