Paris Hilton just highlighted her experience with it in a new interview.

The idea of being rejected is pretty terrifying for most people—it’s right up there with a root canal. But recently, TikTok creators have attempted to ease their fear of rejection with an unorthodox ...

Children expecting rejection tend to resist conforming to academic and social trends. A child's emotional and cognitive reactions to potential rejection are strong predictors of conformity. Anxious ...

It’s love at first sight. You meet at a concert and lock eyes as you belt the lyrics to your favorite song. Maybe you take a video or a photo together. Your next course of action? No, not introducing ...

I have learned to look forward to rejection, but getting there was not easy. I have been rejected more times in my life than I have been accepted, from being the last one chosen for sports teams, ...

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Do you (or does someone you know) struggle with sensitivity to rejection? If so, you likely perceive yourself in a negative light and fear that others will reject you for your inadequacies. The sense ...

Feel the fear and do it anyway. Fear is always there. It never goes away. The difference between people who succeed and people who quit is simple: one acts in spite of fear, the other freezes because ...

Most of us are, to a certain extent, afraid of rejection. But for some, this fear can be debilitating. New research forthcoming in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science explores the ...

Behind every job offer are hundreds of résumés marked ‘rejected’—a reminder that persistence matters more than perfection. After months of job searching, Erin had rewritten her résumé, applied to ...

Imagine you’re a child in a classroom, and your teacher tells everyone to form groups for a project. You sit and wait, watching as other kids pair up and wondering if anyone will pick you. This fear ...