LISSEK: Because we live in such social worlds, I'd have to say the number-one most common fear is socially related — fear of social evaluation.
The current experiment tested whether changing one's nonverbal behavior prior to a high-stakes social evaluation could improve performance in the evaluated task.
Social evaluation by preverbal infants.
The case for social evaluation in infants.
Reply to Scarf et al.: Nuanced social evaluation doesn't compute.
Hamlin, J. K., Wynn, K. & Bloom, P. Social evaluation by preverbal infants.
In effect, the prospect of social evaluation suppressed these students' intelligence.
Modeling social evaluation and attribution, visual scene understanding and common-sense physical reasoning.
Three-month-old infants show a negativity bias in social evaluation.
This capacity may serve as the foundation for moral thought and action, and its early developmental emergence supports the view that social evaluation is a biological adaptation.
Scarf, D., Imuta, K., Colombo, M. & Hayne, H. Social evaluation or simple association? Simple associations may explain moral reasoning in infants.
