Comments on: Are People With Social Anxiety Afraid of Positive Feedback? https://allpsych.com/are-people-with-social-anxiety-afraid-of-positive-feedback/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-people-with-social-anxiety-afraid-of-positive-feedback The Virtual Psychology Classroom Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:49:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Neil Petersen https://allpsych.com/are-people-with-social-anxiety-afraid-of-positive-feedback/#comment-2697 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:17:27 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1998#comment-2697 In reply to D.

Thanks for commenting, D! That makes sense, of course. But in this study there seems to be more than that going on. I only mentioned it in passing in the article, but people’s reactions were stronger for positive and for negative feedback compared with neutral “feedback” (e.g., being told the time of day).

]]> By: D https://allpsych.com/are-people-with-social-anxiety-afraid-of-positive-feedback/#comment-2696 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:15:53 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1998#comment-2696 May I suggest, as someone with social anxiety, that we dread positive evaluations almost as much as negative evaluations because either way, an evaluation involves interaction with other humans. That is my issue anyway. I would think it would be pretty textbook…

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