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The amygdala is part of the limbic system which is related to fear cognition and emotional learning. Individuals with social anxiety disorder have been found to have a hypersensitive amygdala ; for example in relation to social threat cues (e.g. perceived negative evaluation by another person), angry or hostile faces, and while waiting to give ...
Social anxiety is the anxiety and fear specifically linked to being in social settings (i.e., interacting with others). [1] Some categories of disorders associated with social anxiety include anxiety disorders, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorders, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. [1]
These people are seen as the enemy since their behavior is viewed as a danger to society. Consensus includes a distributed agreement that an actual threat is going to take place. This is where the media and other sources come in to aid in spreading of the panic. Disproportionality compares people's reactions to the actual seriousness of the ...
An article based on a National Comorbidity Survey reported that 1/3 of people with lifetime social phobia had glossophobia [11] Another survey of a community sample from a Canadian city reported that of people who believed being anxious in one or several social situations 55% feared speaking to a large audience, 25% feared speaking to a small ...
A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is "the process of arousing social concern over an issue", [ 4 ] usually perpetuated by moral entrepreneurs and mass media coverage, and exacerbated by politicians and ...
Community group leaders fear they will face major repair bills if a city council's proposal to slash grants to community centres goes ahead. Nottingham City Council, which declared effective ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
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