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  2. Horror and terror - Wikipedia

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    Acceptance; Admiration; Affection; Amusement; Anger; Angst; Anguish; Annoyance; Anticipation; Anxiety; Apathy; Arousal; Awe; Belongingness; Boredom; Confidence ...

  3. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls Teratophobia fear of giving birth to a monster [38] or a disfigured foetus [39] Tetraphobia: fear of the number 4: Thalassophobia: fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean: Thanatophobia: fear of dying, a synonym of death anxiety; not to be confused with necrophobia: Thermophobia

  4. Fear - Wikipedia

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    Fear is an unpleasant emotion that arises in response to perceived dangers or threats. Fear causes physiological and psychological changes. It may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat, commonly known as the fight-or-flight response. Extreme cases of fear can trigger an immobilized freeze ...

  5. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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    Anxiety and fear are psychological responses that have evolved because they help us avoid danger. A mechanism to suppress anxiety and fear, as postulated by TMT, is unlikely to have evolved because it would reduce the chances of survival.

  6. Psychological torture - Wikipedia

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    A prisoner at Abu Ghraib shows fear of a U.S. army dog during prisoner abuse. Psychological torture, mental torture or emotional torture is a type of torture that relies primarily on psychological effects and only secondarily on any physical harm inflicted. Although not all psychological torture involves the use of physical violence, there is a ...

  7. Emotion classification - Wikipedia

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    Emotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective science. ...

  8. Terror - Wikipedia

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    An extreme form of fear, the emotional response to a threat or danger Angst , a form of anxiety or fear described in existentialist philosophy Anxiety , a sense of dread

  9. Terrorism - Wikipedia

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    Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. [1] The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants. [2]