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  2. Island tameness - Wikipedia

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    The most famous example is the dodo, which owed its extinction in large part to a lack of fear of humans, and many species of penguin (which, although wary of sea predators, have no real land predators and therefore are very bold and curious towards humans).

  3. Tiyanak - Wikipedia

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    The tiyanak (also tianak or tianac [1] Tagalog:) is a vampiric creature in Philippine mythology that takes on the form of a toddler or baby. Although there are various types, it typically takes the form of a newborn baby and cries in the jungle to attract unwary travelers.

  4. Fear and trembling (biblical phrase) - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "fear and trembling" is frequently used in New Testament works by or attributed to Paul the Apostle (painted here by Peter Paul Rubens). Fear and trembling ( Ancient Greek : φόβος και τρόμος , romanised : phobos kai tromos ) [ 1 ] is a phrase used throughout the Bible and the Tanakh , and in other Jewish literature.

  5. Akrasia - Wikipedia

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    Akrasia (/ ə ˈ k r eɪ z i ə /; Greek ἀκρασία, "lacking command" or "weakness", occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy) is a lack of mental strength or willpower, or the tendency to act against one's better judgment. [1]

  6. Counterphobic attitude - Wikipedia

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    The Batman comics and movies often take Bruce Wayne's fear of bats as a central part of his origin story. Sick , the documentary on performance artist Bob Flanagan , discusses the counterphobic attitude of Flanagan, who sought to escape the chronic pain of his cystic fibrosis by engaging in extreme acts of masochism .

  7. 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 ...

  8. The Fear and Greed Index: Definition and Examples - AOL

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    Investors have two primary emotions, fear and greed, according to CNN Money. The Fear and Greed Index measures how investors across the entire stock market are feeling at any given point. Here’s ...

  9. The Concept of Anxiety - Wikipedia

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    (cf. pp. 320–321) If a person now turns back and pursues his definition of "feeling" as the spirit's immediate unity of its sentience and its consciousness (p. 142) and recalls that in the definition of Seelenhaftigkeit [sentience] account has been taken of the unity with the immediate determinants of nature, then by taking all this together ...