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==For all the listers out there==
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What do you have against [[Yoda]]? -Whats a question?
:Fear if Yoda speaks of should you hear.[[User:PopSci|PopSci]] ([[User talk:PopSci|talk]]) 06:34, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
 
==Article==
This is a dictionary entry. [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not|Wikipedia is not a dictionary]]. If you're going to turn a word like this into an article, or some semblance of an article, please make sure you have something more constructive to say than a simple definition.
 
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"The opposite is '''confidence'''. '''Self-confidence''' is confidence in oneself, i.e. in one's abilities and worth, including the abilitiy to cope with one's limitations and problems. Unjustified confidence can cause problems."
 
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I would suggest that the first thing that is listed should be the medical/physical description of fear, including a brief overview of the reactions that the various hormones (epinephrine, norepinephrine, the steroid cortisol etc.) each cause, the role of the amygdala etc.
 
==A comment on fear==
I was doing my daily philosophizing and a thought about fear occured to me. Fear can either stop us from doing something, or it makes us do something. For example, we would not go up to an 8 foot gorilla and punch it in the face because our fear prevents us from doing it. On the other hand most of us go to college because we want good jobs, we fear to be bums and starve. In the first instance fear stopped our action, and in the second it was the catalyst for action. It struck me then that this whole world is built on fear. Every advance we have made can be traced back to fear. I don't like fear and have spent many years trying to get it out of my system, but I guess I should be thankful because I can be on this computer because of fear. Can someone else post their thoughts on this.
 
After that there should be a section on the evolutionary theories behind why fear exists and how it developed. Next should be a few of the more prominant psychological and philosophical analyses regarding the emotion.
 
Finally it should be wrapped up with a list of the more well-known / prevelant fears that humans experience.
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What your examples are describing is not exactly fear, just a lack of stupidity. A person wouldn't punch a Gorrila because they know they can't win, rather than from fear. You can KNOW something is dangerous without fear of it, and thus avoid it. With the bum vs. good jobs, this also comes into play. You want the best for yourself, naturally, and would seek out any means to get it. This means that your not afraid of becoming a bum, you just don't want to. In any case that I can think of, fear can be overwritten and rendered obsolete by simple intelligence. Thus, only those without the knowledge or animals without the capability would require fear. I can conclude from this that fear, for intelligent beings at least, is determental to survival, or at least useless.
 
EX: A man sees a truck barreling towards him at top speed, but instead of dodging out of the way, he is frozen by fear and allows the truck to hit him.
EX: You see it in horror movies all the time, the victim is being attacked by the killer, and instead of running or fighting, the victim just stands there screaming or cowering until the killer gets them.
Fear is just one of many emotions that were evolved for primitive animals that is determental to survival for sentient beings.[[User:24.118.227.213|24.118.227.213]] 07:15, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 
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*"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - [[Franklin Roosevelt]]
*"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - [[Dorothy Thompson]]
*"Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies." - [[Edward Gibbon]].<ref>Gibbon, Edward, ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'', Chapter XI: Reign Of Claudius, Defeat Of The Goths, Part II, Superstitious ceremonies
. [http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap11.htm]</ref>
*"Jonathan Livingston Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed." - [[Richard Bach]] <ref>Bach, Richard, ''[[Jonathan Livingston Seagull]]'', 1970. Cf. Part One. [http://www.lib.ru/RBACH/seagullengl.txt]</ref>
*"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear" - [[Aung San Suu Kyi]]
*"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown"-[[H.P. Lovecraft]]
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Is there any way to prove that fear actually exists? Shouldn't we consider that there is no real basis for this idea? <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Climenole|Climenole]] ([[User talk:Climenole|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Climenole|contribs]]) 09:10, 4 October 2008 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
 
:Well, fear actually exits, e.g., children, children feel fear, but not explicitly, despite of you easily detecting fear in someone, after all, are feelings, and varies from person-to-person.
:So the idea of fear can be eradicated or be generalized in some way, because it is an extremely sensible subject, too sensible for pisicology.
:The fear it's a feeling that somehow occurs to warn you of danger, or when you feel yourself when danger, as the so-called "phobias".
:Example: Claustrophobia is fear of closed, limited spaces, like elevators, a lot of people are afraid of elevators, because they think it is dangerous. WK:CLAUSTROPHOBIA.
:In other words, the consensus, as expected, is that fear does exist and it is essential to study it. [[Special:Contributions/177.105.90.10|177.105.90.10]] ([[User talk:177.105.90.10|talk]]) 15:22, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 
==Revisions==
 
I've been doing some extensive revisions lately. I cleaned up the "fear of death" section, but I'm not convinced that it belongs in this article. This is really a matter of death anxiety, not fear, given the distinction between fear and anxiety that is made in the introduction. Maybe we should move this material to the [[anxiety]] article. --[[User:Jcbutler|Jcbutler]] ([[User talk:Jcbutler|talk]]) 18:33, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 
== woops ==
 
woop woop woop! here I am dedicating my time (fyi, costs approx 50 euros / hour pre b.sc.) - point is "... Psychologists John B. Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that fear is one of a small set of basic or innate emotions. This set also includes such emotions as joy, sadness, and anger." - I suspect psychology does not actually claim any true meaning in the states. and even people claiming themselves psycholgists (in the states) can't really be taken seriously (as others coming from the states..) I am so incredibly sure, that, apart from borderline meaningless psychiatrists, many pschologists can actually confirm this. but hey, wiki has always been right, right?! but hey, before I ever looked into this subject, I would have never naturally thought, that fear may be an innate reaction..! thank god we have american psychiatrists basing their knowledge on generally disproved Freud! here's a european FYI: Freud fucked up a fucking lot! his basics are principally sound, his conclusions are to be sincerely debated! oh whatever, here comes change, mr. obama! <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/88.152.2.107|88.152.2.107]] ([[User talk:88.152.2.107|talk]]), 09:43, 21 November 2008 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP -->
 
== Picture of fear ==
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IS this necessary to put on the article of fear? I sense indirect slander instead of contributing to the article. A more general picture should be used instead or none at all. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Transkar|Transkar]] ([[User talk:Transkar|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Transkar|contribs]]) 08:35, 10 April 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
That picture is disgraceful and should be removed- what is wrong with you people? <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/65.111.94.208|65.111.94.208]] ([[User talk:65.111.94.208|talk]]) 16:53, 16 May 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
 
This picture violates the rule of representing information fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias. Its use is making an statement and showing a disproportionate bias against the US army when there are much better examples to show, in general, as on military intimidation all around the world, specially by unofficial militias. [[Special:Contributions/186.73.195.82|186.73.195.82]] ([[User talk:186.73.195.82|talk]]) 15:14, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 
==Fear according to Vivekananda==
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== Smell, olfactory, odor, communication of fear? ==
Serious question! Some evidence, at least, suggests that animals and humans emit some particular chemical when frightened, and then other ones of the same type can detect it and smell it. Some of the evidence can easily be shown to lie in the realm of fiction. I am absolutely not an expert on any of the particular evidence, but I am pretty sure this might be a very important part of the article that is utterly missing, apparently. [[User:Thinkadoodle|Thinkadoodle]] ([[User talk:Thinkadoodle|talk]]) 18:58, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
:It is a very good question, but unfortunately I don't know the first thing about this. I have also asked your question on [[Talk:Animal_communication#Fear_.2F_Edit_request|Talk:Animal communication]]. Let us hope some editor shows up who knows more about this. [[User:Lova_Falk|<fontspan sizestyle="2font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Segoe Print;color:#e75e03">'''Lova Falk'''</span></fontspan>]] [[User talk:Lova Falk|<fontspan sizestyle="2font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Segoe Print;color:#336699">talk</span></fontspan>]] 08:22, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
:: [[User:Thinkadoodle|Thinkadoodle]], I've added a section on alarm pheromones (fearomones -:), which might interest you, after I saw your post and reflected on the common knowledge of "fear is contagious". Absolutely no fiction, ancient heavy hardwired stuff that connects us with all that lives.--[[User:Wuerzele|Wuerzele]] ([[User talk:Wuerzele|talk]]) 18:15, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
 
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Upon further review, the last sentence under religion and fear suffers the women accused of witchcraft were filled with fear and hanged as a result. The sentence is illogical. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/207.191.188.81|207.191.188.81]] ([[User talk:207.191.188.81|talk]]) 18:26, 5 February 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
 
== flag for etymology section to be moved out ==
 
I do not agree with the editor suggesting today, that the etymology section should be moved out to the wictionary. It would be a loss here. Most often wictionary is very sparsely populated and so I for one hardly even check it for any page. I would consider the move almost a content fork, because this is such a primeval topic. --[[User:Wuerzele|Wuerzele]] ([[User talk:Wuerzele|talk]]) 22:39, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 
== Frozen fright ==
 
I believe there is a term "frozen fright" for one of several possible reactions to fear. But I cannot find anything about it in this article. (It seems to focus on causes of fear and not so much on reactions to it. The same with other related articles like [[Fight-or-flight response]] and [[Acute stress reaction]]. Maybe "frozen fright" is a kind of [[Paralysis]], but that article, IIRC, does not mention it as a reaction to fear in humans.) People are said to have had "frozen fright" reaction during e.g. terrorist attacks and rape. So, is "frozen fright" an established phenomenon, or term? And where in WP should it be described? [[User:David A se|David A se]] ([[User talk:David A se|talk]]) 00:51, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
:Okay, now I see it is covered, with the term "freeze response", in the lead and in the "Mechanism" section. Still, is "frozen fright" or "freeze fright" established enough terminology to deserve a redirect to here or to [[Fight-or-flight response]]? [[User:David A se|David A se]] ([[User talk:David A se|talk]]) 01:04, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
 
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== Sanskadania? ==
 
This word is used in the "Signs and symptoms" section, and the only references I can find to the word are other places that reference this article. Is it even a real word?
 
--[[User:Ethanicus|Ethanicus]] ([[User talk:Ethanicus|talk]]) 20:44, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
 
I removed it.
 
[[User:MrPersonMan69|MrPersonMan69]] ([[User talk:MrPersonMan69|talk]]) 16:22, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 
== The "Causes" section is becoming a kitchen sink ==
 
Right off the bat I noticed a couple of problems:
 
# The "fear of death" should really be merged with the "Death" sub-section of "society and culture".
# Why single out "Xenophobia" when there are innumerous phobias?
 
I think this section should stick to primary and more general causes rather than explaining every phobia.
[[User:BecomeFree|BecomeFree]] ([[User talk:BecomeFree|talk]]) 03:26, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 
: I went ahead and resolved this. [[User:BecomeFree|BecomeFree]] ([[User talk:BecomeFree|talk]]) 13:41, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 
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