He learned that love is an exquisitely logical survival code designed to keep special others we can depend on close to us and that his intellectual explanations and emotional distancing were
danger cues for his lonely wife.
But if you concentrate very hard and don't let the
blaring danger cues spoil the fun, Transsiberian is an entertaining film.
Your brain also perceives the other spectrum, when you feel isolated and emotionally disconnected from your partner or spouse,
as danger cues.
Over time, learning that the «
danger cue» is no longer dangerous produces extinction of the fearful response.
The subjects were initially «trained» to associate an aversive stimulus (
the danger cue) with an electrical shock.
Later, half the subjects then underwent standard extinction, where
the danger cue was presented but the shock was eliminated.
The authors also found that the extent to which people were intolerant with the uncertainty of being shocked was related to their risk that the fear of
the danger cue would return.
Exposure to these initial traumatic experiences, the resulting emotional dysregulation, and the loss of safety, direction, and the ability to detect or respond to
danger cues may impact a child's development over time and can lead to subsequent or repeated trauma exposure in adolescence and adulthood without supports that might buffer the negative effects.
Preoccupation with threat, or impaired capacity to perceive threat, including misreading of safety and
danger cues.
That's
a danger cue for our brain.
And for most human beings, that's
a danger cue.