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proneness



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The study also shows the chain of actions that can occur by theorizing OCD predicted boredom proneness, fear of missing out and inhibitory anxiety.

From Science Daily Jan. 13, 2024

"Grandiose narcissism has been linked to seeking admiration, manipulativeness, and proneness to hostility when being criticized," Harjunen observed.

From Salon May 17, 2023

Studies conducted during the coronavirus pandemic also found that individuals high in boredom proneness had a greater tendency to break the rules of social distancing.

From Washington Post Jul. 16, 2021

We should buck commercial considerations to the extent that we can and give the candidates’ competing visions of government as much scrutiny as their competing talents for quips or proneness to gaffes.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2019

Tragedy has become the representation of vice and sin, with a proneness for their foulest entanglements.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.




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