The first animal that put its four limbs outside the tube was considered the loser while the other one won the trial. When both animals remained 2 min inside the tube without confronting each other, the trial was considered null. The animal that presented more won trials throughout each ...
Fear conditioning is a form of associative learning that is known to involve different brain areas, notably the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex and the periaqueductal grey (PAG). Here, we describe the functional role of pathways that link the cerebellum
I refer to the concept of ‘green’ violence in the context of TBPAs entailing an amplitude of material and non-material characteristics, including spatial enclosure and militarization of the protected areas as well as the implementation of discursive and physical forms of violence by conservation ...
Studies of public areas where sexual assaults have occurred show that the type and characteristics of fearful places—for example, poor lightning and the presence of hiding places—correlate with the occurrence of crime. Starting in the Netherlands (RPD, 1985; Hajonides, 1987) and followed by Au...
How Fear Works It's dark out, and you're home alone. The house is quiet other than the sound of the show you're watching on TV. You see it and hear it at the same time: The front door is suddenly thrown against the door frame....
Why Do We Fear? If we couldn't be afraid, we wouldn'tsurvivefor long. We'd be walking into oncoming traffic, stepping off of rooftops and carelessly handling poisonoussnakes. We'd be hanging out with people who have tuberculosis. In humans and in all animals, the purpose of fear is ...
“cluster A, B and C trait” characteristics, each subsequent one being less common than the last, but still possibly present. I didn’t have a textbook anxiety disorder. I definitely didn’t have social anxiety, which explains why I felt so out of place in the ten-week program I ...
My first Halloween (I was a few months shy of a year old), Mom decided that she was going to dress up. As a clown. Scared the ever-loving juju out of me. To the point where I still don’t like clowns to this day. Mom would bring it up every so often to tease me about it...
Nevertheless, we believe that the achieved information power of our study appears strong because it involves a group of participants with specific characteristics having experiences and views that have not been described before (Malterud et al., 2016). The interviews were conducted by an experienced...
This type of research is very promising for people who are under the control of debilitatingphobiasand anxiety disorders. But what about those of us who just get butterflies before delivering a presentation or have trouble getting close enough to the thirtieth-floor balcony to check out the view...