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nerve: a standalone construct

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Psychology and everyday use

Nerve as courage

In everyday English, nerve names courage, coolness, or boldness held onto in the face of danger or embarrassment, as in keeping one's nerve or having the nerve to act; in a near opposite turn, the plural nerves and the word nervousness name anxious, agitated feeling. Rate, Clarke, Lindsay, and Sternberg's 2007 Implicit theories of courage examined how people ordinarily conceive of courage as willed action toward a worthy end despite felt fear. The referent is a disposition or state of a person, felt and judged, not a fibre in the body, a vein in a leaf, or a strut in a wing.[1]

Unit: A person's courage or boldness under threat, judged by conduct
Recovery means: Not applicable
Measured by: Assessed by self-report scales, ratings of behaviour under risk, and studies of how people conceive of courage

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References

Rate, C. R., Clarke, J. A., Lindsay, D. R., & Sternberg, R. J. (2007). Implicit theories of courage. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2(2), 80–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760701228755

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