Sentences with phrase «uncertain social situations»

Children who are behaviorally «inhibited» — a condition at the extreme of the behavioral inhibition dimension — experience distress in uncertain social situations.

Their extreme fear of rejection causes them to steer clear of uncertain social situations whenever possible.

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Given the limits of forecastbased planning in situations of social and political ambiguity, and the complex interplay of uncertain dynamics, scenario based initiatives are needed to enable more proactive, collaborative approaches.

Human beings are social creatures; we do what we see our peers doing, particularly in stressful or uncertain situations.

However, recent research finds that this is not true: In fact, people with lower self - esteem have the same social skills as people with higher self - esteem, but they often don't feel safe enough to use them.1 This «safety» concern comes into play in situations when one tries to start a relationship with another person, or what researchers call relationship initiation; such situations are risky because one often doesn't know if the other person is going to be accepting or rejecting, 1 and thus the outcome of the attempted initiation is often uncertain.

A temperamental disposition toward the avoidance of novel and uncertain situations together with a set of behaviors that indicate shyness and discomfort in social interactions are comprehensively named childhood shyness, or behavioral inhibition (BI).14 Children with high indexes of shyness - BI are at a heightened risk of developing anxiety disorders, in particular social phobia, 15 and subjects who fall within the BI — social phobia developmental continuum show specific patterns of neurophysiologic responses to pictures of facial expressions.