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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000 Many emerging market countries have suffered financial crises. One view blames soft pegs for these crises. Adherents to that view suggest that countries move to corner solutions--hard pegs or floating exchange rates.
G. Calvo, Carmen M. Reinhart
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The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2020 Background The emergence of the COVID-19 and its consequences has led to fears, worries, and anxiety among individuals worldwide. The present study developed the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) to complement the clinical efforts in preventing the spread
D. Ahorsu +5 more
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Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2005 This paper offers interpretations and applications of the “fear of ruin” coefficient (Aumann and Kurz, 1977, Econometrica). This coefficient is useful for analyzing the behavior of expected utility maximizers when they face binary lotteries with the same worse outcome. Comparative statics results of “more fear of ruin” are derived. The partial ordering
Foncel, Jérôme, Treich, Nicolas, N.
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Functional Fear Predicts Public Health Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2020 In the current context of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), health professionals are working with social scientists to inform government policy on how to slow the spread of the virus.
C. Harper +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 The emergence of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected health-care workers’ psychological and mental health. Few studies have been conducted examining the psychological effect of COVID-19 on health-care worker psychological health in Jordan ...
E. Alnazly +3 more
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“Pandemic fear” and COVID-19: mental health burden and strategies
Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2020 ‘‘Pandemic fear’’ and COVID-19: mental health burden and strategies Felipe Ornell,0000-0001-8638-5842 Jaqueline B. Schuch,0000-0001-8638-5842 Anne O. Sordi,0000-0001-8638-5842 Felix Henrique Paim Kessler0000-0001-8638-5842 Centro de Pesquisa em Álcool e ...
F. Ornell +3 more
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Are fear memories erasable?–reconsolidation of learned fear with fear-relevant and fear-irrelevant stimuli [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2012 Recent advances in the field of fear learning have demonstrated that a single reminder exposure prior to extinction training can prevent the return of extinguished fear by disrupting the process of reconsolidation. These findings have however proven hard to replicate in humans.
Armita Golkar +3 more
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TO FEAR OR NOT TO FEAR ON CYBERCRIME
Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, 2013 To understand cybercrime and its various forms, one must be familiar with criminality in general. How individuals perceive crime, and how much they fear it is further influenced by news media (Crawford, 2007). Van Duyne (2009), who monitored criminality, wrote about changes which started to be noticed twenty years ago and have shaped a new Europe, a ...
Bernik, Igor +2 more
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Emotional processing of fear: exposure to corrective information.
Psychological bulletin, 1986 In this article we propose mechanisms that govern the processing of emotional information, particularly those involved in fear reduction. Emotions are viewed as represented by information structures in memory, and anxiety is thought to occur when an ...
E. Foa, M. Kozak
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