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I Do Not Fear, Because I Fear
<p>Fear is a consistent theme in monotheistic traditions. It is a topic that deserves much attention because it is pervasive in scripture, spirituality, and in many aspects of life. While fear and the fear of God are emphasized in scripture, their importance has been underestimated and …
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Fear Decorated
My art practice is an ethical and imaginative discourse around Pakistan’s security culture anti-terrorism and its dependence on the production of cognitive illusions in the citizenry. My works elaborate on the use of urban furnishings of danger to rapidly create, continually reinforce and normalize …
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Triumph Over Fear: Is the Experience of Fear Essential to Courage?
… the perception that an actor has experienced fear is essential to the actor being perceived as courageous. The current dissertation examines this fundamental question. The main conclusion is that it is not the experience of fear that is essential for an actor to be viewed as having courage; …
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Fear Learning and the Olfactory Bulb: Neural Correlates of Behavioral Fear Generalization
… One such form of this learning is associative fear learning, in which an organism learns to associate an initially neutral stimulus, which by itself has no biological relevance, with an innately fear-inducing stimulus. After temporally pairing the two stimuli, organisms learn that the initially …
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Appealing to fear: a meta-analysis of fear appeal effectiveness and theories
The effects of fear appeals on attitudes, intentions, and behaviors were examined in a comprehensive meta-analysis. Studies were included if they contained a treatment group exposed to a fear appeal, a valid comparison group, a manipulation of depicted fear, a measure of attitudes, intentions, or …
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Fear Not: Exploring the Role of Memory Suppression During Pavlovian Fear Extinction
… assessments of the retrieval stopping model of fear extinction—a model reframing century-old theories of how we overcome fears. The model marries two hitherto disconnected research areas: memory suppression and Pavlovian fear extinction. Memory suppression is a cognitive process whereby …
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THE FEAR OF DROWNING
… and resist one’s place of origin.</p> <p><em>The Fear of Drowning</em> is a culmination of fiction, poetry, and essays that blur the lines of confession and imagination. Each individual piece works in conversation with the whole. Fiction merges into poetry and finally lands in an undeniable desire …
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Fear of success revisited
The unresolved question of whether Fear of Success is a motive or a measure of gender-role stereotypes is at the centre of the confusion about this construct. The purpose of the present study was to re-explore the nature of Fear of Success through the relationship of this construct to other …
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The fear of death and the fear of dying: Possible barriers to altruistic behavior
<p>Research in the study of the fear of death and dying and the study of altruism implies that there is a dynamic relationship between the two fields. Rarely, if ever, has a direct connection been made. This study is an effort to further explore the relationship that exists between the fear of …
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Fear of crime in Ulundi
Fear of crime has become a much documented crime related problem. It can lead to avoidance behaviour, for example when normal social activities are curtailed and certain areas are avoided. Lewis and Salem (1986:3) conclude that "fear of crime [has become] as much of a social problem as the crime …
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Fear and Death in Plato
… that a perfectly virtuous individual will not fear her own death, nor will she fear or grieve the death of a loved one. In Plato's ideal society, citizens are taught not to fear death and are prohibited from public manifestations of grief. It is by no means self-evident, however, that ridding …
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Fear of a Blank Planet
This study is organized into four major chapters. In the first chapter, the various grounds traversed by affect and the problems of writing 'about' affect are established. The second chapter reads across Continental philosophy to extract and expand upon the undertheorized spatio-temporalities of …
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Fear of crime in Virginia
Fear of crime is as much a reality as crime itself. Our reactions to the problem of crime may influence or interfere with our day-to-day activities. Yet not everyone is a victim of crime, nor does everyone perceive crime as being a serious problem. The author tests hypotheses about the …
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The social transmission of associative fear in rats : mechanisms and applications of fear conditioning by proxy
… the robust production of responses makes direct fear conditioning the most frequently used paradigm in the research of fear and anxiety disorders. Fear can also be acquired from a social context, such as through observing the fear expression of a conspecific (Mineka et al., 1984, Mineka and Cook, …
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The relationship between food and fear
… the procedure of feeding an organism in a fear-producting situation has been viewed as having a fear-reducing effect, called counterconditioning. English and English define counterconditioning as the procedure of conditioning a second and conflicting response to a conditioned stimulus that …
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Exploring Fear and Freud's The Uncanny
Fear is one of the oldest and most basic of human emotions. In this thesis, I will explore the topic of fear in relation to literature, both a staple of the horror genre as well as a device in literary works, as well as in my own writings. In addition, I will use Sigmund Freud's theory of the …
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There is No Fear in Love
… of scriptures from various religions. It is the fear of the unknown and of change that also keeps the general population unwilling to be open minded. A quick Google search leads me to a few select passages from the Christian Bible about fear and love. 1 John 4:18 seemed to fit the exact ideas I’m …
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