If ambiguity feels unbearable or silence feels personal, rejection sensitivity may be quietly shaping your relationships.

No one is excited to deal with social rejection, but people with a certain mental health condition may struggle with this more than others. It’s called rejection sensitivity dysphoria, and Paris ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Photo: Gabriella Carr/TikTok/@gracefullygabbie) We are conditioned early on to believe that being rejected means we aren’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rejection is universal, yet the way it hits us can feel personal, almost like a wound that never quite heals. It doesn’t matter if ...

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 ...

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 ...