Fear is an emotion felt when one faces a danger or threat or when one thinks about a past or a future event evocative of a certain danger. Animals respond to a fearful situation by instinctive reactions and mechanical gestures (escape, attack...).

Humans are not deprived from basic instincts and react the same way when danger crops up. Biologically speaking, the secretion of hormones by the brain is activated whenever fear is felt and can lock an individual's thought ( and in the worst case constrain him to faint) or prepare him to run away... Indeed, who hasn't heard that dogs could smell fear? The proportion of legendary content in this collective thought is not well defined, but it may only induce that dogs have an olfactory capacity acute enough to allow it to smell these hormones.

Psychologically speaking, fear can also be the figment of a running-wild imagination or of the subconscious. It's typical of mankind to fear an hypothetic danger, activated by a sound, a move or a passing-by shape. Some fears are only shared by some people, and will never touch others. Phobias or “morbid fear” are those fear only targeted upon certain things like spiders, bugs, death, water, places, blood, social situations...Some people even have phobophobias, that is the irrational fear of fearing something!

Fear is a very powerful weapon. In totalitarian regimes for instance, fear is a powerful instrument in the control of people, as those societies claim to stand as protectors of the mass against a threatening body.

Fear is such an intense emotion, that we may sometimes take a certain pleasure in it. Spooky stories of cruel witches and demons, haunted houses, horror movies, roller coasters, Halloween...we like feeding our deepest collective fears!

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