Fear
Fear is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, real or not. It is one of the basic emotions (see emotion theory).
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Fear may underlie some phenomena of behavior modification, although these phenomena can be explained without adducing fear as a factor in them. Furthermore, application of aversive stimuli is also often ineffective in producing change in the behaviour intended to be changed. Fearing objects or contexts can be learned; in animals this is being studied as fear conditioning, which depends on the emotional circuitry of the brain.
Some philosophers have considered fear to be a useless emotion with uniformly bad consequences; other thinkers note the usefulness of fear as a warning of bad situations.
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Degrees of fear
Fear can be described by different terms in accordance with its relative degress. Fear covers a number of terms - terror, fright, paranoia, horror, persecution complex,
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"Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." (Yoda in )
Terror
Terror refers to a pronounced state of fear, where someone becomes overwhelmed with a sense of immediate danger.Paranoia
Paranoia is term to describe a psychosis of fear, related to perception of being persecuted. This perception often causes one to change their normal behaviour in radical ways, after time their behavior may become extremely compulsive.Quotes
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself" (Franklin D. Roosevelt)