Fear mongering

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, said former US president, Franklin D Roosevelt. This has been proven true countless times throughout history where fear shaped humanity for the worse. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, fear is present since the beginning of the book . The boys battle against the beast is one of the major conflicts that takes place in the narrative. Their fear of the unknown, personified as the beast, causes the boys on the island to descend into…

Fear is incapacitating. It holds you back and it holds you down. The older you get the more fear you can hold but also the more you see and have to fear. When you come out of childhood you learn that the monsters you feared under the bed may not be there, but you learn that they lurk the streets and the halls of your life. You learn not only to fear monsters but also emotion, failure, change and loss. How does one learn to cope? how, after finding out that the earth is so terrifying,, do people…

with an eight month old baby named Albert to conclude that adult fears are conditioned in early life (Schultz & Schultz, 2011). According to Classics in the History of Psychology (n.d.), the experiment began with a perfectly stable infant. The first step in the experiment was a series of emotional tests. The infant was shown a white rat, a rabbit, a dog, and a monkey in various forms. The findings were recorded. Albert showed no fear during these baseline tests. They then tested and discovered…

ANXIETY Living in the world today, it is impossible to have a perfect life and for everything to end up the way one would plan it to. According to Kathleen McGuire, the author of the article, “Is Anxiety Holding You Back?” anxiety is an irrational fear that everything will not be perfect. This makes the disorder especially…

knew the truth” (Hadreas 1), is true to nearly everyone. One must keep their own strangeness, flaws, and insecurities hidden in order to maintain appeal and attractiveness to their partner. When one reveals their true self and lets go of all such fears, one often finds their partner will abandon them, for that true self was not the person they fell in love with. Hadreas is shown with and his partner in the video, “gay porn star Arpad Miklos” (Dombal 1), and Miklos is doing Hadreas’ hair and…

attack. This has been a result of my fear of death, especially with many people I know dying from accidents, disease, or age in the past few years. This sort of situation would be described as a form of Panic Disorder, since I have the common characteristics of feeling ill, beginning to get shaky, fast paced breathing, and overall uneasiness accompanied by fear. Panic disorder is when a person experiences sudden feelings of intense dread and they often live in fear of when the next attack might…

Rumors are unverified accounts of the truth, yet people often hear rumors and believe them to be fact. Psychologist Daniel Goleman’s article “Anatomy of a Rumor: It Flies on Fear” sets out to explain why rumors spread and provide a solution on how to fight them. He divides his article into six different sections to help the reader better understand. Goleman’s article is an interesting look at the world of rumors and explains to the reader in a logical manner why they spread. Goleman begins his…

With a critical election ahead, Americans anxiously await the results. This election impacts more than just another four years of American history; this election determines the fates of all millennium children and the strength of the economy as they enter college. Clinton’s economic plan includes making college more affordable; Trump’s plan wars with ISIS and the Middle East, depleting money from America. However, bogged down by both candidates’ scandals and characteristics, American voters…

instructor of how extremely nervous I was. I had a sense of fear that suddenly came over me before and during my speech. The instructor than advised me to change the context of my relationship to nervousness and fear and use my nervous energy as a positive force. I was to come back the following week by “making nervousness my empowering friend”. He suggested that instead of me trying to remove, resist or repress my nervousness and fear, that I change the context of my relationship to my…

perceived fairness correlates with fear of negative evaluation. We believe that belief in a just world impacts how one views being judged, especially when being negatively judged. Our research question reflects perceived fairness and fear of negative evaluation. The higher a person perceives fairness, the more they fear negative evaluation. In this study, we attempt to analyze and show a correlation of this, for example, by looking at if those that are employed will fear more negative…