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  2. Fear - Wikipedia

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    Russell [9] described a more functional categorization of fear-evoking stimuli, in which for instance novelty is a variable affecting more than one category: 1) Predator stimuli (including movement, suddenness, proximity, but also learned and innate predator stimuli); 2) Physical environmental dangers (including intensity and heights); 3 ...

  3. Fear processing in the brain - Wikipedia

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    In fear conditioning, the main circuits that are involved are the sensory areas that process the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, certain regions of the amygdala that undergo plasticity (or long-term potentiation) during learning, and the regions that bear an effect on the expression of specific conditioned responses. These pathways ...

  4. Crying - Wikipedia

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    Crying is the dropping of tears (or welling of tears in the eyes) in response to an emotional state or physical pain. Emotions that can lead to crying include sadness, anger, joy, and fear. Crying can also be caused by relief from a period of stress or anxiety, or as an empathetic response.

  5. Why do we feel emotions in our stomachs? - AOL

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    We've known for a long time that sometimes we feel our emotions physically in the body. There are loads of MRI scans to back it up -- but why are so many of the negative emotions (like fear ...

  6. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    For example, an irritable person is generally disposed to feel irritation more easily or quickly than others do. Finally, some theorists place emotions within a more general category of "affective states" where affective states can also include emotion-related phenomena such as pleasure and pain , motivational states (for example, hunger or ...

  7. Panic attack - Wikipedia

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    Panic attacks are associated with many different symptoms, with a person experiencing at least four of the following symptoms: increased heart rate, chest pain, palpitations (i.e. feeling like your heart is pounding out of your chest), difficulty breathing, choking sensation, nausea, abdominal pain, dizziness, lightheadedness (i.e. feeling like ...

  8. James–Lange theory - Wikipedia

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    Also, humans do not always exhibit emotions using the same behaviors; humans may withdraw when angry, or fight out of fear. [16] She says that emotion is more complex than a mere physical sensation. According to Barrett's theory of constructed emotion , a person must make meaning of the physical response based on context, prior experience, and ...

  9. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...