Nobody likes to look stupid. But in order to look stupid, there has to be someone else around who can make that judgment or, at the very least, be the person from whom you infer that judgment. For example, if you open a door to leave a room, and you accidentally bump into it rather than leaving the room gracefully, you will feel very different depending on whether there was someone watching you, there was no one watching you, or there was someone in the room who might have been watching you. If someone was ...
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S. PrenticeThe Future of Workplace Fearhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8101-7_77. The Fear of Looking Stupid
Steve Prentice1
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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