What Is Fear?
Yusef Griffin
Buffalo State College
Abstract
What Is Fear?
Introduction
Fear is one of the basic human emotions. Throughout life, every living person and animal has experienced fear. There is no limit to the number of times one may experience fear, but a person’s lifestyle is a major contributor. For example, a Marine Corps infantryman will experience fear more often than an accountant. Fear has powerful effects on a person’s behavior , physiology, and physical actions. Most of the time, fear arises when we experience something that threatens our life. There are two different kinds if fear; innate fear and learned fear. Innate fear is caused by naturally threatening stimuli such as standing on the edge …show more content…
The main reason is because when a person becomes fearful their entire aura changes. They start sweating, shaking, and may do things that they would not normally do. Everyone has experienced fear at some point in their life and this is a helpful in the study of fear. It is helpful because everyone knows what fear feels like and can relate to one another. Understanding fear, how it is developed, and how to cure or reduce it can help society drastically. A better understanding of fear will give us a better understanding of the human mind and can lead onto other explorations and …show more content…
The more we understand our brain, the more we understand ourselves and human life in general. In the future, more experiments should be done to better understand the part of the brain that controls fear. This better understanding of the brain will have a significant impact on humans throughout the world. We could find out why certain people are scared of certain thing while others are not. This could also be helpful in creating a medicine or hormone that reduces the feeling or symptoms of fear. A creation of that magnitude can significantly help those individuals who suffer from some type of phobia. Taking medicine could enhance an individual’s quality of life, knowing that they can live regularly without having an intense and dramatic fear of something. Hormones or medicine could be used for a number of other purposes. Veterans who suffer from Post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatized victims of horrendous crimes, or those traumatized by other events may be more than willing to use it in order to become “normal” again, and so they could release the stress associated with their personal
Yusef Griffin
Buffalo State College
Abstract
What Is Fear?
Introduction
Fear is one of the basic human emotions. Throughout life, every living person and animal has experienced fear. There is no limit to the number of times one may experience fear, but a person’s lifestyle is a major contributor. For example, a Marine Corps infantryman will experience fear more often than an accountant. Fear has powerful effects on a person’s behavior , physiology, and physical actions. Most of the time, fear arises when we experience something that threatens our life. There are two different kinds if fear; innate fear and learned fear. Innate fear is caused by naturally threatening stimuli such as standing on the edge …show more content…
The main reason is because when a person becomes fearful their entire aura changes. They start sweating, shaking, and may do things that they would not normally do. Everyone has experienced fear at some point in their life and this is a helpful in the study of fear. It is helpful because everyone knows what fear feels like and can relate to one another. Understanding fear, how it is developed, and how to cure or reduce it can help society drastically. A better understanding of fear will give us a better understanding of the human mind and can lead onto other explorations and …show more content…
The more we understand our brain, the more we understand ourselves and human life in general. In the future, more experiments should be done to better understand the part of the brain that controls fear. This better understanding of the brain will have a significant impact on humans throughout the world. We could find out why certain people are scared of certain thing while others are not. This could also be helpful in creating a medicine or hormone that reduces the feeling or symptoms of fear. A creation of that magnitude can significantly help those individuals who suffer from some type of phobia. Taking medicine could enhance an individual’s quality of life, knowing that they can live regularly without having an intense and dramatic fear of something. Hormones or medicine could be used for a number of other purposes. Veterans who suffer from Post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatized victims of horrendous crimes, or those traumatized by other events may be more than willing to use it in order to become “normal” again, and so they could release the stress associated with their personal