The feeling experienced when there is a perceived threat of danger to one's own or another's personal safety. The emotion, possibly, triggering the "flight and fight" response. Possibly an extension of anxiety.
Questions tagged [fear]
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How can fear be a positive emotion?
Fear is something we all feel, and we typically experience it as negative. It seems difficult to treat it as a positive emotion or find any satisfaction in overcoming it.
So my question is: Can people learn how to have positive experiences with…
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How can fear paralysis be overcome?
For a person with slight phobia of fear paralysis, (A fear that in critical situation when he will most need to react fast to save his (or loved ones) lives he will just be sitting there paralyzed watching his demise...)
This question answers on the…
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How does fear paralysis occur?
(This question is in relation to this question here)
How does fear paralysis occur? What is the mechanism that makes this happen in brain?
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What is fear in humans and what does it do?
From researching conventional understandings of fear, it can be a response to a perceived dangerous situation. But this definition seems very limited because fear seems to depend very much on context.
If someone is in a place where there is a…
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Why is surprise, sudden loud sound or movement an element of fear?
Why is it that a sudden loud sound or movement, or some kind of surprise tends to invoke fear?
This phenomenon is not restricted to humans and can also be observed in animals
Sheldon Cooper brought this up in TBBT
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Fear and disgust of animals: Has there been shown a correlation of fear or disgust to the shape or morphology of animals?
I'm asking this, because I have once read a newspaper article about research showing that fear or disgust increase with the morphological difference of an animal to ourselves. This means e.g. the greater the difference in number of legs or the…
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Is it possible to get rid of fear completely?
Is it possible to get rid of fear completely.
By fear i do not mean phobias but all kinds of fear whether it is rational(like to fear of getting kill by a tiger) and irrational fear(like phobias).
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When people get over their fears, do they get over it, or do they just get used to it?
When people fear something, and then at a later time don't, have they just gotten used to the feeling of fear, or are they actually less scared? If it varies by which fear we are talking about, then for the fear of darkness specifically and also for…
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Can information in the media increase fear of something?
I'm working on an essay trying to link an increased fear of something with information received from the media about it and I'm trying to find out if there are any studies on the matter.
Let me give an example:
An african-american sees news about…
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Are there any literary sources for the claim that light from below evokes fear in the viewer?
It is sometimes stated that light from below or 'underlighting' can be used in movies to evoke fear in the viewer. I'm curious, are there any written sources for that claim? In filmmaking or film studies textbooks? Or even some academic studies?
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How does one explain the irrational fear of approaching problems?
There is a particular problem I've had since as long as I can remember , but I always managed to shove it to the back of my head and ignore, albeit acknowledging its existence.
I'll provide a bit of relevant background regarding the particular areas…
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