Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat.
- FearEkman's facial-expression research examined six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.
- Emotion3 related topics with Alpha
Anxiety
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Anxiety is an emotion which is characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and it includes subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events.
Anxiety is closely related to fear, which is a response to a real or perceived immediate threat (fight or flight response); anxiety involves the expectation of future threat including dread.
Psychological trauma
1 linksPsychological trauma or mental trauma is an emotional response to a distressing event or series of events, such as accidents, rape or natural disasters.
Moral injury is associated with guilt and shame while PTSD is correlated with fear and anxiety.
Curiosity
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Quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in humans and other animals.
The term curiosity can also be used to denote the behavior or emotion of being curious, in regard to the desire to gain knowledge or information.
This approach puts curiosity in a broader perspective, also involving aggression and fear.