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  2. Freezing behavior - Wikipedia

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    Freezing behavior, also called the freeze response or being petrified, is a reaction to specific stimuli, most commonly observed in prey animals, including humans. [1] [2] When a prey animal has been caught and completely overcome by the predator, it may respond by "freezing up/petrification" or in other words by uncontrollably becoming rigid or limp.

  3. Claustrophobia - Wikipedia

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    Claustrophobia is the fear of being closed into a small space. It is typically classified as an anxiety disorder and often results in a rather severe panic attack. It is also sometimes confused with Cleithrophobia (the fear of being trapped). [13] Diagnosis of claustrophobia usually transpires from a consultation about other anxiety-related ...

  4. Frigophobia - Wikipedia

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    Frigophobia is a phobia pertaining to the pathological concern of hypothermia.Frigophobia is a psychiatric condition that appears mainly in the Chinese culture. Sufferers of this affliction compulsively bundle up in heavy clothes and blankets, regardless of the ambient air temperature.

  5. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The term is a piece of computer humor entered into the 1981 The Devil's DP Dictionary. [47] Anatidaephobia – the fictional fear that one is being watched by a duck. The word comes from the name of the family Anatidae, and was used in Gary Larson's The Far Side. [48] Anoraknophobia – a portmanteau of "anorak" and "arachnophobia".

  6. 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 ...

  7. Fight-or-flight response - Wikipedia

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    Originally understood as the "fight-or-flight" response in Cannon's research, [3] the state of hyperarousal results in several responses beyond fighting or fleeing. This has led people to calling it the "fight, flight, freeze" response, "fight-flight-freeze-fawn" [1] [citation needed] or "fight-flight-faint-or-freeze", among other variants.

  8. Taqiyya - Wikipedia

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    The term taqiyya is derived from the Arabic triliteral root wāw-qāf-yā denoting "caution, fear", [1] "prudence, guarding against (a danger)", [16] "carefulness, wariness". [17] In the sense of "prudence, fear" it can be used synonymously with the terms tuqa(n) , tuqāt , taqwá , and ittiqāʾ , which are derived from the same root. [ 9 ]

  9. The Flying Dutchman (2000 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Flying Dutchman is an American film of 2000, directed by Robin P. Murray and starring Catherine Oxenberg, Eric Roberts, and Rod Steiger.. The movie has also been called Frozen in Fear [6] and is a re-working of The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and House of Wax (1953).