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  2. Fear of negative evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Fear of negative evaluation (FNE), or fear of failure, [1] also known as atychiphobia, [2] is a psychological construct reflecting "apprehension about others' evaluations, distress over negative evaluations by others, and the expectation that others would evaluate one negatively".

  3. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  4. Fear of falling - Wikipedia

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    The fear of falling encompasses the anxieties accompanying the sensation and the possibly dangerous effects of falling, as opposed to the heights themselves. Those who have little fear of falling may be said to have a head for heights. Basophobia is sometimes associated with astasia-abasia, the fear of walking/standing erect.

  5. Fear - Wikipedia

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    Fear is an unpleasant emotion that arises in response to perceived dangers or threats. Fear causes physiological and psychological changes. It may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat, commonly known as the fight-or-flight response. Extreme cases of fear can trigger an immobilized freeze ...

  6. Is it a fear or a phobia? How to identify — and treat — what ...

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    "Many, if not most, people experience some anxiety or discomfort with spiders, heights, confined spaces," one psychologist says.

  7. Social anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    The social situations almost always provoke fear or anxiety. Thus, an individual who becomes anxious only occasionally in the social situation(s) would not be diagnosed with social anxiety disorder. Note: In children, the fear or anxiety may be expressed by crying, tantrums, freezing, clinging, shrinking, or failing to speak in social situations.

  8. Is Your Dog Afraid of the Car? Here's an Expert Trainer's ...

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    In cases of severe fear or in challenging cases that fail to respond to behavior modification, medications may be needed. Neurochemical imbalances occur when there are high levels of anxiety, and ...

  9. Test anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Test anxiety can be diagnosed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV, under the classification of social phobia. [8] Social phobias are characterized by a marked and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur. In order to be diagnosed as suffering from a social phobia, the DSM-IV states that the ...