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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-->

 

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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-->

 

==Fear according to Vivekananda==

== 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)

:: [[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)

 

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)