Fear is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, real or not. It's one of the basic emotions.
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.
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself" (Franklin D. Roosevelt) |
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