In helping to encourage readers to overcome fear of rejection and to convey interest in an attractive person,the authors of Chapter 15 ("Personal Relationships")reviewed the study by Vorauer and Ratner (1996).In that study,participants had to imagine meeting an attractive person and having the interaction end with neither of them communicating interest in seeing the other again.Participants explained the failure to communicate interest by blaming

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The study found that participants typically blamed their own inaction on a fear of rejection, while attributing the other person's inaction to a lack of interest. This shows that individuals are often hesitant to express their own interest in someone due to fear of rejection, but assume that the other person's lack of interest is the reason for their inaction.

In Helping to Encourage Readers to Overcome Fear of Rejection