State of Fear
A State of Fear is an emotion state (in an emotional agent with a fear ability) that refers to personal risk and inclines to a flight response.
- AKA: Fear Emotion.
- Context:
- It can be measured by a Fear Measure.
- It can be induced a Perceived Threat, such as a feeling of pain.
- It can trigger a Fear-based Response, such as a flight response or a fight response.
- It can range from being a Conscious Fear Emotion to being an Unconscious Fear Emotion.
- It can range from being an Non-Human Fear Emotion to being a Human Fear Emotion.
- It can encourage Avoidance Behavior, a narrowed perceptual and cognitive focus on perceived threats, and pessimistic judgments about risks and future outcomes (Frijda, 1986; Izard, 1993; Lerner & Tiedens, 2006; Maner and Gerend, 2007; Rachman, 1990).
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- Example(s):
- a Fear of Loss.
- a Fear of Failure.
- a Fear of Ridicule.
- a Fear of Dying.
- a State of Dread.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- an Anger Emotion.
- a Disgust Emotion.
- a Sadness Emotion.
- a Trust Emotion.
- a Empathy Emotion.
- See: Stimulus (Physiology), Risk, Courage, Paralysis, Cognition, Rational, Irrational, Fearful People.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fear Retrieved:2014-7-7.
- Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events. Fear may occur in response to a specific stimulus happening in the present, or to a future situation, which is perceived as risk to health or life, status, power, security, or in the case of humans wealth or anything held valuable. The fear response arises from the perception of danger leading to confrontation with or escape from/avoiding the threat (also known as the fight-or-flight response), which in extreme cases of fear (horror and terror) can be a freeze response or paralysis.
In humans and animals, fear is modulated by the process of cognition and learning. Thus fear has been judged as rational or appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is called a phobia.
Psychologists such as John B. Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that there is only a small set of basic or innate emotions and that fear is one of them. This hypothesized set includes such emotions as joy, sadness, fright, dread, horror, panic, anxiety, acute stress reaction and anger.
Fear should be distinguished from, but is closely related to, the emotion anxiety, which occurs as the result of threats which are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable. [1] The fear response serves survival by generating appropriate behavioral responses, as it has been preserved throughout evolution.
- Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events. Fear may occur in response to a specific stimulus happening in the present, or to a future situation, which is perceived as risk to health or life, status, power, security, or in the case of humans wealth or anything held valuable. The fear response arises from the perception of danger leading to confrontation with or escape from/avoiding the threat (also known as the fight-or-flight response), which in extreme cases of fear (horror and terror) can be a freeze response or paralysis.
- (Wikipedia, Simple, 2014) ⇒ http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions#Robert_Plutchik.27s_theory Retrieved:2014-1-12.
- Robert Plutchik's theory of emotion says that the basic eight emotions are:
- Fear → feeling afraid. Other words are terror (strong fear), shock, phobia
- Robert Plutchik's theory of emotion says that the basic eight emotions are:
2009
- (Kish-Gephart et al., 2009) ⇒ Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart, James R. Detert, Linda Klebe Treviño, and Amy C. Edmondson. (2009). “Silenced by Fear:: The nature, sources, and consequences of fear at work." Research in Organizational Behavior, 29.
- QUOTE: These search results are surprising given the potentially far-reaching impact of fear on workplace behavior. As a powerful, [[evolutionary-based emotion[[, fear encourages avoidance behavior, a narrowed perceptual and cognitive focus on perceived threats, and pessimistic judgments about risks and future outcomes (Frijda, 1986; Izard, 1993; Lerner & Tiedens, 2006; Maner and Gerend, 2007; Rachman, 1990). ...