This past fall, I set out to get rejected as often as I could. A healthy fear of rejection lives inside most people, and has some of us in a chokehold. Being rejected is seen as, at worst ...

Imagine you're a child in a classroom, and your teacher tells everyone to form groups for a project. You sit and wait, ...

Some individuals, however, feel the sting of rejection much more acutely than others and also have an exaggerated fear of being rejected by those around them. These people are said to be high in a ...

She’s written about her fear of rejection ... “I love the Sylvia Plath quote: ‘I love my rejection slips - they show me I try’. It's just an indicator that you need to approach the ...

The fear of rejection -- familiar to many children and adults -- can significantly impact how kids behave in their peer groups, according to new research.