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A person who is anxious about being evaluated might show debilitated performance in evaluative situations (for example, taking tests), but function well in other situations in which an evaluative emphasis is not present.
It is likely that the specific effect on fear of negative evaluations is due to the training materials being confined to social evaluative situations.
For example, some people approach evaluative situations with fear and foreboding, while others seem to be motivated in a desirable direction by competitive pressures associated with performance.
But what's good for the camera is good for the boardroom, the interview, the sales call, the negotiation and the first date (all of which constitute, as Cuddy says, "evaluative" situations).
This is particularly true for situations related to decision uncertainty, and other evaluative situations.
Boelen and Reijntjes (2009) argue that safety behaviors and self-focused attention decrease the intense feelings of uncertainty that occur in social evaluative situations.
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Test anxiety was measured according to the following definition: "the set of phenomenological, physiological and behavioural responses that accompany concern about possible negative consequences or failure on an exam or similar evaluative situation" [ 26].
High standard beliefs (e.g., "I need to be liked by everyone") contain perceived high social standards that an individual with social phobia believes that they need to attain to avoid negative evaluation in social-evaluative situations.
Across these models of social phobia, the persistence of maladaptive beliefs related to the self and social-evaluative situations contribute to the maintenance of the disorder and experience of anxiety whenever social-evaluative situations are encountered.
Specific beliefs related to the self and social-evaluative situations form an integral part of models of social phobia.
For example, questionnaires have been developed to examine cognitions related to specific types of social-evaluative situations.
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