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Abstract
Anxiety disorder characterized by the persistent and irrational fear, anxiety, or avoidance of social or performance situations.
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14 entry terms
- Fear of Social Evaluation
- Phobia, Social
- Phobia, Social Evaluation
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Social Evaluation Phobia
- Sociophobia
- Anxiety Disorder, Social
- Disorder, Social Anxiety
- Evaluation Fear, Social
- Social Anxiety Disorders
- Social Evaluation Fear
- Social Evaluation Phobias
- Social Phobias
- Sociophobias
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History Note
2017
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Previous Indexing
- Phobic Disorders (1997-2016)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Social Phobia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000072861. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000072861
- Social Phobia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anxiety_disorder
- Social Phobia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281928