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  2. Culture of fear - Wikipedia

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    Culture of fear (or climate of fear) is the concept which describes the pervasive feeling of fear in a given group, often due to actions taken by leaders. The term was popularized by Frank Furedi [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and has been more recently popularized by the American sociologist Barry Glassner .

  3. Geometry of Fear - Wikipedia

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    The Geometry of Fear exhibition was well received, both within and outside Britain. Alfred Barr, the former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, spoke highly of the sculptors and bought work by three of them – Robert Adams, Reg Butler and Lynn Chadwick – for the museum; [3] he described the exhibition as "the most distinguished national showing of the Biennale".

  4. Systematic desensitization - Wikipedia

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    The goal of the therapy is for the individual to learn how to cope with and overcome their fear in each level of an exposure hierarchy. The process of systematic desensitization occurs in three steps. The first step is to identify the hierarchy of fears. The second step is to learn relaxation or coping techniques.

  5. Yellow Peril - Wikipedia

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    [30] [31] [32] A similar idea and fear was expressed by Dmitry Merezhkovskii in Zheltolitsye pozitivisty ("Yellow-Faced Positivists") in 1895 and Griadushchii Kham ("The Coming Boor") in 1906. [31]: 26–28 [32] The works of explorer Vladimir K. Arsenev also illustrated the ideology of Yellow Peril in Tsarist Russia.

  6. The Actors Roundtable: The fear factor behind great art - AOL

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    Stan: And the idea that in a system like Sing Sing, there's a level of acceptance of self that's happening on such a deeper, more profound level than it's actually happening in the real world ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Emotion classification - Wikipedia

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    Circumplex models have been used most commonly to test stimuli of emotion words, emotional facial expressions, and affective states. [ 13 ] Russell and Lisa Feldman Barrett describe their modified circumplex model as representative of core affect, or the most elementary feelings that are not necessarily directed toward anything.

  9. This fact is at odds with modern critiques of fairy tales; that "Happily ever after" often involves a man saving a helpless woman; that Disney princesses and their Grimm-penned counterparts are tame and silent compared with their princely other halves; that the stories embrace violence but never mention the more feminine grittiness of pregnancy ...