ReviewDepression and anxiety2018
Malaise with praise: A narrative review of 10 years of research on the concept of Fear of Positive Evaluation in social anxiety.
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- Dissociated in Anticipation, Common in Feedback: Neuroelectrophysiological Mechanisms of Social-Motivational Processing in Bivalent Evaluation Fears.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Social anxiety and the positive valence system: A scoping review.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2026Review
- Bridging Fear of Negative Evaluation and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Network Perspective on the Roles of Family Functioning and Self-Control.Depression and anxiety · 2026Article
- Biased information-seeking and information-integration in social anxiety.Current opinion in psychology · 2025Review
- The Shared and Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Fear of Evaluation in Social Anxiety: The Roles of Negative and Positive Evaluation.Depression and anxiety · 2025Review
- Influence of core self-evaluation on social anxiety in college students with financial difficulties: mediation of self-acceptance.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between physical appearance perfectionism on subthreshold depression in college students: the role of gender and fear of negative evaluation.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The impact of core self-evaluation on social anxiety among male nursing interns: the mediating role of self-acceptance.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between fear of negative evaluation, physical activity, eating behavior and psychological distress among nursing students.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2024Article
- Bivalent Fears of Evaluation in Social Anxiety: Evaluation of an Extended Psychoevolutionary Model.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- Re-assessing the assessment of fears of positive and negative evaluation: Scale development and psychometric evaluation of the Bivalent Fear of Evaluation Scale (BFOES).Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Prospective Associations Between Fears of Negative Evaluation, Fears of Positive Evaluation, and Social Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescence.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Fear of compassion from others explains the relation between borderline personality disorder symptoms and ineffective conflict resolution strategies among patients with substance use disorders.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2022Article
- Please Don't Compliment Me! Fear of Positive Evaluation and Emotion Regulation-Implications for Adolescents' Social Anxiety.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Eating disorder and social anxiety symptoms in Iranian preadolescents: a network analysis.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Observational
- Virtual Reality-Based Psychotherapy in Social Anxiety Disorder: fMRI Study Using a Self-Referential Task.JMIR mental health · 2021Article
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- Amygdala hyperreactivity to faces conditioned with a social-evaluative meaning- a multiplex, multigenerational fMRI study on social anxiety endophenotypes.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Article
- Malaise with praise: A narrative review of 10 years of research on the concept of Fear of Positive Evaluation in social anxiety.Depression and anxiety · 2018Review
- The Role of the Fear of Positive Evaluation in the Relationship Between Social Anxiety and the Pride Experience and Expression.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Social anxiety is characterized by a fear of being negatively evaluated by others (i.e., Fear of Negative Evaluation [FNE]). In 2008, Weeks, Heimberg, and Rodebaugh proposed Fear of Positive Evaluation (FPE) as a second cognitive component in social anxiety. The article presents an overview of FPE, its psycho-evolutionary theoretical foundation and assessment by the Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale as well as relevant psychometric research on demographic characteristics. The relationship of FPE with a wide range of established dimensions from clinical, personality, and social psychology (i.e., self-esteem, perfectionism, or quality of life) will be reviewed. The role of FPE for psychological comorbidities such as other anxiety disorders, depression, eating, and substance use disorders as well as for treatment of social anxiety will be discussed. Future research might address questions of causality of FPE relative to related constructs, further data on psychometric properties, as well as on its independence from FNE in longitudinal studies. In sum, FPE seems to be a valid and reliable construct that explains cognitions, emotions, and behavior related to social anxiety at subclinical and clinical levels and therefore enriches the psychometric repertoire in the fields of social psychology, personality, and clinical psychology.
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