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A Protection Motivation Theory of Fear Appeals and Attitude Change1.

The Journal of psychology, 1975
A protection motivation theory is proposed that postulates the three crucial components of a fear appeal to be (a) the magnitude of noxiousness of a depicted event; (b) the probability of that event's occurrence; and (c) the efficacy of a protective ...
R. Rogers
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Putting the fear back into fear appeals: The extended parallel process model

, 1992
The fear appeal literature is diverse and inconsistent. Existing fear appeal theories explain the positive linear results occurring in many studies, but are unable to explain the boomerang or curvilinear results occurring in other studies.
K. Witte
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Fear, anger, and risk.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001
Drawing on an appraisal-tendency framework (J. S. Lerner & D. Keltner, 2000), the authors predicted and found that fear and anger have opposite effects on risk perception.
J. Lerner, D. Keltner
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Differential contribution of amygdala and hippocampus to cued and contextual fear conditioning.

Behavioral Neuroscience, 1992
The contribution of the amygdala and hippocampus to the acquisition of conditioned fear responses to a cue (a tone paired with footshock) and to context (background stimuli continuously present in the apparatus in which tone-shock pairings occurred) was ...
R. Phillips, Joseph E LeDoux
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Fear of COVID-19 and the mental health consequences in America.

Psychological Trauma, 2020
The intent of this work was to examine the intersection of COVID-19 fear with social vulnerabilities and mental health consequences among adults living in the United States. Data are from a nationally representative sample (n = 10,368) of U.S.
K. Fitzpatrick, C. Harris, G. Drawve
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The impacts of vulnerability, perceived risk, and fear on preventive behaviours against COVID-19

Psychology, Health & Medicine, 2020
The world has been under the negative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic for the last few months. While people may take many preventive behaviours to minimize the risk, very little is known about the factors that can increase preventive behaviours during ...
Murat Yıldırım, Ekmel Geçer, Ö. Akgül   +2 more
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Fearing the fear of nanotechnology [PDF]

Nature, 2008
Hard data could help dispel scientists' preconceptions about the public, argues Richard Jones.
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Fear and Fearfulness in Animals

The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1995
Persistence of individual differences in animal behavior in reactions to various environmental challenges could reflect basic divergences in temperament, which might be used to predict details of adaptive response. Although studies have been carried out on fear and anxiety in various species, including laboratory, domestic and wild animals, no ...
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The Fear of Death and the Fear of Dying

The Journal of Psychology, 1969
(1969). The Fear of Death and the Fear of Dying. The Journal of Psychology: Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 179-181.
David Lester, Lora-Jean Collett
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Fears, phobias, and preparedness: toward an evolved module of fear and fear learning.

Psychology Review, 2001
An evolved module for fear elicitation and fear learning with 4 characteristics is proposed. (a) The fear module is preferentially activated in aversive contexts by stimuli that are fear relevant in an evolutionary perspective. (b) Its activation to such
A. Öhman, S. Mineka
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