In comic books, Batman characterizes criminals who use guns as cowardly (Finger & Kane, 1940; Miller, 1986). In the film Rush Hour, Detective James Carter tells the character Sang to “put down the gun and fight like a man” (Ratner, 1998). These popular cultural narratives imply that ...
“Someone is threatening me and my friend with a baseball bat. We are sitting in my car on Fairfield Street. We are terrified. My friend lives here, but she is afraid to get out of the car.” I called the friend that I stayed with and told her what was happening. She had lived i...
(2005). Gender, age, and professional- level differences in the psychological correlates of fear of injury in Italian gymnasts. Journal of Sports Behaviour, 28, 78-89.Cartoni, A.C., Minganti, C., & Zelli, A. (2005). Gender, age, and professional-level differ- ences in the ...
A statement from the BBC explained: “Our journey through horror will be led not by historical chronology, but by the physical experience of fear within the human brain. “We’ll track a course through the involuntary reactions that make horror possible, and use them as a jumping-off point ...
go out of your house because of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too much. Even in your house you are not ly safe. A plane may crash on your house, or you may get cancer! The important thing is not to let fear...
International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ, UK Mark D. Griffiths Corresponding author Correspondence to Mark D. Griffiths. Ethics declarations Conflict of Interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest....
We sometimes have to look the other way – towards a busy street or terminal – before they run out of their burrows. The setting was certainly rich in distractions. Every few minutes, a voice (usually belonging to either Margaret or her colleague Juliet, speaking from a small room on the...
Fear of crime has been an area of increasing concern in criminological research in recent years. This is a study of (1) the relationship between media portrayals of crime and the prevalence of fear of crime, and (2) the key demographic correlates of fear of crime in the study community....
Items include “I tense up if I meet an acquaintance in the street,” and “I have difficulty talking with other people.” In calculating a total scale score, we summed the 17 straightforwardly-worded items, excluding reverse-coded items, based on improved psychometrics from this method (...
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION, February 1, 1999 While advertising executive Cindy Dooley sat on the plane, waiting for takeoff on twice-monthly flights to visit clients, she would break into a nervous sweat, her heart pounding and her stomach plagued by jitters. She recalls how sh...