Paula would love to have friends and go to the movies and parties,

but she just knows that she would embarrass herself in these situations by not wearing the "right" clothes or not being able to carry on a conversation. Paula would be diagnosed as having which personality disorder?
a. schizoid
b. avoidant
c. antisocial
d. histrionic


ANSWER: b

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