Alison becomes very anxious when she has to give a speech in front of an audience. Advocates of evolutionary personality theory might call Alison's problem an example of anxiety caused by
A. conditioning.
B. an inherited temperament.
C. a fear of social exclusion.
D. a fear of novel situations.
C
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