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  2. Fearmongering - Wikipedia

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    A remarkable tactic is the so-called strategy of tension, which is based on making violence and chaos in order to create political instability, to defame an opponent, to pave the way for a more authoritarianism or fascist government, or to prevent the decolonization of colonies.

  3. Scare tactics (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Scare tactics may refer to: Scare tactics, or fear mongering, the tactical use of fear, fright, or terror; Scare Tactics, a 2003–2013 American hidden-camera pranks television series; Scare Tactics, a 1996–1998 DC Comics mini-series.

  4. Appeal to fear - Wikipedia

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    Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) is the appeal to fear in sales or marketing; in which a company disseminates negative (and vague) information on a competitor's product.. The term originated to describe misinformation tactics in the computer hardware industry and has since been used more broa

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  6. Fear appeal - Wikipedia

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    Fear appeal is a term used in psychology, sociology and marketing.It generally describes a strategy for motivating people to take a particular action, endorse a particular policy, or buy a particular product, by arousing fear.

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  9. Jump scare - Wikipedia

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    Basic principle of a jump-scare in its early form as a jack-in-the-box.Illustration of the Harper's Weekly magazine from 1863. A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games, intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with a scary face, usually co-occurring with a ...