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- Psychologists define fear as a protective, primal emotion that evokes a biochemical and emotional response. Fear alerts us to the presence of danger or the threat of harm, whether that danger is physical or psychological. Whereas the biochemical changes that fear produces are universal, emotional responses are highly individual.
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Apr 20, 2024 · Psychologists define fear as a protective, primal emotion that evokes a biochemical and emotional response. Fear alerts us to the presence of danger or the threat of harm, whether that danger is physical or psychological. Whereas the biochemical changes that fear produces are universal, emotional responses are highly individual.
Jul 20, 2023 · Fear is a normal response to many situations and comprises two primary reactions: biochemical and emotional. The biochemical reaction to fear causes our bodies to respond to perceived threats in the environment. This produces automatic physical reactions such as sweating, increased heart rate, breathlessness, and dilated pupils.
Aug 1, 2023 · A single instance of human emotion can be meaningfully characterized using multiple prescriptive labels, such as ‘biologically basic fear,’ ‘predator fear,’ ‘cognitively appraised fear,’ and ‘psychologically constructed fear.’
The biological bases of fear and anxiety are now recognized, and the major brain structures and neuronal circuits involved in emotional information processing and behavior are delineated. Emotional and cognitive processes cannot be dissociated, even when considering such a basic emotion as fear.
- Thierry Steimer
- 10.31887/DCNS.2002.4.3/tsteimer
- 2002
- 2002/09
Oct 27, 2017 · The fear response starts in a region of the brain called the amygdala. This almond-shaped set of nuclei in the temporal lobe of the brain is dedicated to detecting the emotional salience of...
Oct 30, 2021 · Triggering the response. The fight-or-flight response begins in the amygdala, which is an almond-shaped bundle of neurons that forms part of the limbic system. It plays an important role in...
Jan 1, 2013 · A state of fear is typically constituted (in part) by motivating the organism to behave in a certain way, modulating memory, and directing our attention. So, those aspects of motivation, attention and memory, just like certain aspects of behavior, are part of an adaptive response to a threatening stimulus.
