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    Psychology of Fear
    Psychology of Fear
    Psychology of Fear
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    Psychology of Fear

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    Each and everyone is feared by some or the other thing in
    their lives. When a person finds itself in a difficult situation or
    is threatened by something, then fear is contemplated to be the
    appropriate response of the body. Fear is an emotion which
    one feels when he/she experiences or passes through a
    dangerous situation or through a situation of perceived threat.
    When the body experiences the feeling or emotion of fear, it
    responds in two ways: Biochemical Reaction and Emotional
    Response. Biochemical response of the body is generally
    referred to as the fight or flight response of the body in which
    the body prepares itself to either fight with the situation or fly
    away from the situation. This is considered to be an
    evolutionary development which is important for our survival.
    Every individual's way of physically reacting to fear is more or
    less the same however the emotional response is contemplated
    to be a personalized response of the body to fear and hence
    differs from one individual to another.
    The subject of Psychology of Fear differentiates fear as
    conscious, and fear as an unconscious, fear as emotion and
    fear as a feeling, fear as anxiety and fear in phobias and lastly
    fear with bodily actions and fear without bodily actions. This is
    done in order to understand the nature of fear and then take
    a probable course of action to cure it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntroBooks
    Release dateNov 25, 2019
    ISBN9781386054818

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      Psychology of Fear

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      Preface

      Each and everyone is feared by some or the other thing in their lives. When a person finds itself in a difficult situation or is threatened by something, then fear is contemplated to be the appropriate response of the body. Fear is an emotion which one feels when he/she experiences or passes through a dangerous situation or through a situation of perceived threat.

      When the body experiences the feeling or emotion of fear, it responds in two ways: Biochemical Reaction and Emotional Response. Biochemical response of the body is generally referred to as the fight or flight response of the body in which the body prepares itself to either fight with the situation or fly away from the situation. This is considered to be an evolutionary development which is important for our survival. Every individual’s way of physically reacting to fear is more or less the same however the emotional response is contemplated to be a personalized response of the body to fear and hence differs from one individual to another.

      The subject of Psychology of Fear differentiates fear as conscious, and fear as an unconscious, fear as emotion and fear as a feeling, fear as anxiety and fear in phobias and lastly fear with bodily actions and fear without bodily actions. This is done in order to understand the nature of fear and then take a probable course of action to cure it.

      Summary

      Fear is an emotion which is related to instantaneous danger. Each and everyone is feared by some or the other thing in their lives. During a frightful situation or when exposed to threatful stimuli, it is the central and the peripheral parts of the brain which responds to the stimuli during the process

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