Sentences with phrase «emotional responses to threats»

Furthermore, this hyperactivation intensifies negative emotional responses to these threats and results in excessive rumination about threats (Mikulincer et al. 2003).

When people's political beliefs are challenged, their brains become active in areas that govern personal identity and emotional responses to threats.

Not exact matches

If you have been hurt badly, lied to or had significant physical and emotional damage from traditional medical care — being forced back into that environment will cause fear, that will hamper labour due to how women were made (any threat the woman feels causes labour to slow until she no longer experiences that «fight or flight response», and when she feels safe again, labour should resume)-- labour slows and then interventions «have» to be done... and the cycle repeats itself — reenforcing the belief that the hospital is not the place to birth.

«MDMA really helps reduce the fear response to a perceived emotional threat,» says Rick Doblin, President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which is funding the study.

This novel study is the first to separate emotion from threat by controlling for the dimension of arousal, the emotional reaction provoked, whether positive or negative, in response to stimuli.

The factor analysis revealed two factors contributing to the multiple experience dimensions: common threat and impact communication, and negative emotional responses.

Anxiety is an emotional response to a distant threat — being in an environment that exposes an animal to predators, for example.

Anxiety — an emotional response to a distant threat — is normal and critical to an animal's safety.

«Next, we found that the panic - associated variants in the ASIC1a gene are also associated with both the size of the amygdala and a greater amygdala response to emotional threat, even in people without panic disorder.»

Fear is a strong emotional response to a perceived threat.

Tenenbaum discusses her own emotional response to the climate crisis, and then describes her conversation with Susan, in which Susan acknowledges that conveying the threat and urgency of climate change is important — but it is equally important to communicate hope.

Because fear is defined as «the unpleasant emotional state consisting of psychological and psychophysiological responses to a real external threat or danger [19]», fear and anxiety are similar in meaning.

Psychologists define jealousy as an emotional response to the perceived or potential loss of a valued relationship.2 If I was also polyamorous, then his other girlfriend (or girlfriends) posed no threat to a relationship that we might have together.

We react with an instinctual fight, flight, freeze response when there is a real or imagined threat to our physical safety or emotional wellbeing.

Because of the associated sensitivity to potential rejection and a strong desire for closeness, anxious attachment, rather than secure attachment, should trigger stronger neural activation in response to negative emotional faces in the brain regions implicated in processing social rejection (i.e., dorsal ACC, anterior insula, Gillath et al., 2005) and regions implicated in threat detection (i.e., amygdala, Vrtička et al., 2008) when primed with neutral schema.

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