How Does Fear Affect Humans?

    Fear is intimidating. Fear can be used to persuade you, which is exactly what the Nazi Party and the Salem Witch trials did. Fear is controlling and will overcome your life unless you put a stop to it. “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is

What is fear? Fear is that pit in the back of your stomach, your anticipation to do something, overwhelming yourself for no reason or a nightmare you might have. Most of the time people blame their fear on other people. This is inaccurate; a person only controls there own fears. A person's brain can

Fear is a feeling created in a response to a perceived danger. Fear can produce pleasure, heighten awareness, be in the form of phobia, a fear of the unknown and an instinctual response to danger.

Sue Miley once said, “When we combine choices with fear, we suddenly become overwhelmed and paralyzed” (Miley). Fear is a powerful emotion that can heavily impact one’s decision whether it be for the good or bad. In The Crucible, many important decisions are made and fear is heavily involved in many of those decisions. A research question to be examined is, to what degree can we attribute the events of the Salem Witch Trials as illustrated in The Crucible to fear?

What is fear? Fear is a particular state of mind than can be originated from a realistic circumstance or a sense

Children may feel apprehensive about any changes no matter how small these may be. Children generally feel apprehensive of the unknown. Such changes may include moving home, moving into a new setting etc. The worries children have will range from being simple worries such as where the toilets are located or more complex worries such as bullying etc. If any of the worries of a child are not recognised and addressed by a practitioner then this may directly impact and affect a child’s learning and development.

Fear is a feeling induced by experience, perceived danger, or watching a frightening traumatic accident. The fear responses arise from the perception of danger and ultimately a change in behaviour, such as fleeing, or hiding or from perceived traumatic events. Every person has fears and different fears may be different adaptations that have been useful in our evolutionary past. I have fears too, and sometime, I feel embarrassed to intersperse my fear with others.

Fear is a common human emotion, but the way some people react is different than others. Although, it is harder on some humans unlike other people. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,” Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” I think that means that fear harms more people than anything else does in the whole world. Also that people can scare themselves way easier than normal and it’s not healthy.

Between today’s society, not all people, situations, beliefs, and practices are as black and white as portrayed in years past. There are many elements involved with individuals today that people often don’t take the time out to explore and try to understand. Why? it is mainly because of accumulated fear from the portrayal of certain groups of people on television, newspapers, social media, etc. But what exactly is fear?

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (FDR). President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said this during his inaugural address to the American people. He said this during the Great Depression, which was a dismal time in America’s history. People were poor, hungry, and most of all afraid. During that dark time some people acted on their fears, and these people committed heinous acts they never would commit if they were not afraid.

Fear is a powerful emotion. Fear causes society to do unthinkable things. It can cause people to think and act irrationally, as well as bring about panic and induce terror in society. When we think of fear, we think of something that scares us in response to an event that has taken place. According to Psychology Today, “Fear is an emotional response induced by a perceived threat, which causes a change in brain and organ function, as well as in behavior”. Although fear is an awful thing to experience and it can bring about negative changes, it can also have a positive effect on society. 9/11 and the Charlottesville massacre both were terrorist attacks that created a sense of fear in America. These attacks led the public to search for a way to

Throughout history, fear has been used to control and influence the way people act toward one another. Widespread fear, the use of terror and suspicion to turn a population against a large group of people, has led to the unlawful conviction of innocent people through the means of false and fabricated evidence in an attempt to be sure that those in question under the law are convicted—whatever that conviction may be. Those that are responsible for this widespread fear are those that have power within the community; a political leader, a well-respected citizen, or even those without such authority that have the ability to spread false, prejudice, or fabricated information throughout the community.

As Edmund Burke, an 18th century Irish politician and philosopher, once said, “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its power of acting and reasoning as fear” (Burke). This statement, though established nearly 300 years ago, still applies to the human race today. Many people receive education about morals several times throughout their lives; yet, when faced with a threat or a sense of danger, all those lessons seem to disappear from their brains. Because when overwhelmed by fear, the mind feels impotent leading it to perform impulsive irrational actions to momentarily defend itself.

Fear plays such an important role in your life that observing its effects will be crucial in helping you to understand and dismantle your false layers and beliefs. So with that in mind, let’s take a look at how human behaviour is influenced by fear, and examine some of the behaviours that humans have developed to deal with that fear.

According to my dictionary, Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. When the word "fear" comes to my mind, I think of an emotion that's caused by a bad situation. There are many things in this world that put fear in me. My greatest fears are computer viruses, thugs, sick people, and clowns. Each of these fears make me very scared and give me goosebumps.