[5] The original Fear of Negative Evaluation test consists of thirty items with a sentence that was response format and takes approximately ten minutes to complete.
In 1983, Mark Leary presented a brief version of the FNE consisting of twelve original questions on a 5-point Likert scale (BFNE).
[7] As discussed by Deborah Roth Ledley,[8] subjects in a study were asked to give a speech after completing a dot-probe paradigm task.
Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) scores have been found to have a genetic component in twin studies.
[7] It has been suggested that the genes that influence negative evaluation fears affect a range of anxiety-related personality behaviors.
Winton, Clark and Edelmann (1995) found that individuals who score higher on the FNE are more accurate at identifying negative expressions.