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Showing 1 to 20 of 189 for “"panic"”.
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
Indigenous American sexual minorities and alternatively gendered voices went underground due to Eurowestern sexual colonization from the time of the conquistador invasions of the early 16th century to the political campaigns of cultural homogenization of the mid-20th century. A cultural distortion …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
Indigenous American sexual minorities and alternatively gendered voices went underground due to Eurowestern sexual colonization from the time of the conquistador invasions of the early 16th century to the political campaigns of cultural homogenization of the mid-20th century. A cultural distortion …
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Sex offender registry acts: Deterrence or moral panic?
… This evolution has been hastened by a moral panic based on bad facts and fueled by strong public opinion in favor of long prison sentences and even longer registration periods. Modern laws have little to do with monitoring and more to do with retribution. Proponents claim these penalties are …
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School Shootings and Mental Illness: A Moral Panic
This research uses moral panic theory to investigate the ways in which print media coverage influences the association of mental illness with acts of mass violence in schools. I explore the relationship between the rhetoric of moral entrepreneurs (such as victims' friends and family members, law …
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Children's cognitive responses to the symptoms of panic
… interpretations of the physiological symptoms of panic. Children from grades 3, 6, and 9 imagined experiencing the physical symptoms of panic and reported their attributions for these symptoms. Conceptions of common illnesses and panic attacks were assessed. It was hypothesized that girls would …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
This project elaborates a concept of “species panic,” a severe and often violently-charged reaction to the notion that one’s privileged species status as a human being is under threat. In this project’s post-1900 American literary archive, species panic is often provoked by nonhuman eros, which …
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American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000," analyzes an episode of national hysteria that dominated the media throughout most of the 1980s. Its origins, however, go back much farther and its consequences for the media would extend into subsequent decades. Rooted in the …
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Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric in the Early American Republic
… 1793. A hybrid form of sociological moral panic theory, focused predominantly on the "iteration" of moral panics and the language used to communicate them, is used to understand the dynamics of the information landscape of 1793. Specific attention is paid to the effects of time and space, …
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The role of cognitions in panic: a self-efficacy analysis
Panic attacks are, by definition, frightening experiences. Recent research has attempted to develop efficacious treatments for individuals suffering from these sudden episodes of fear. The current investigation sought to examine the efficacy of a new cognitive-behavioral treatment, Guided lmaginal …
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The Missile Gap: A Moral Panic for an Atomic Age
… a large number of strategic weapons. Using moral panic theory, the roles of the President of the United States and the media are examined in facilitating public interest in the manufacture of these weapons from 1955-1990. The project uses both time series and historical analyses to determine the …
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Panic disorder : exploration of attachment, heterogeneity and the regulation of anger
The impact of a panic attack on the individual can be physically and emotionally disabling. Panic disorder -the chronic fear associated with recurrent attacks, is estimated to have a lifetime prevalence of 3% within the adult population. To date, the treatment panic disorder is restricted to …
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Dissecting the Functional Heterogeneity of Serotonergic Systems That Regulate Fear and Panic
… anxiety and trauma-related disor-ders, such as panic and post-traumatic stress disorders. Overall, site-specific pharmacolog-ical manipulations show that while 5-HT enhances anxiety-associated/avoidance behaviors in the amygdala, 5-HT inhibits panic-associated escape behaviors in the …
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Amoral panic: the construction of 'antisocial behaviour' and the institutionalisation of vulnerability
Through a re-examination of the issue of moral panics, with particular reference to sociological work around ideas of ‘risk’ and a ‘culture of fear’, this thesis attempts to examine the emergence of the social problem of ‘antisocial behaviour’. Situated in part within the changing political terrain …
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A reliability and validity study of panic attack symptoms and cognitions questionnaires
… modes. There is evidence to suggest that panic disordered individuals differ from individuals with other anxiety diagnoses in that they experience a greater increase in somatic symptoms and catastrophic cognitions. Further it has been suggested that panic disordered individuals, as …
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