The fear of peer criticism...
When this fear manifests as an emotional outburst in the midst of an
on-site project it can be very confusing, and disturbing, to those
present and involved who have no clue where the fear is derived from.
Communication of emotion is not generally done in a clean or
particularly professional manner and is usually by definition absent a
few elements of reason. The sooner a project team recognizes the basis
of a communication as emotional the sooner that it can be dealt with
and adjusted. In most cases a minor adjustment to accept the present
reality as being of more importance than the imagined one.