How exactly does fear shape behavior?
2007-06-19 20:03:29 · 11 answers · asked by Leanna 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
One has a natural propensity to avoid pain and to stay alive. The real issue is when fear is contructive, such as avoiding unnecessary danger, and when it is paralizing, like in cases of agorophobia. Let's face it, there's risk in stepping out the door in the morning. One has to draw the line, and that line is going to be different for different people, who have varying temperments and past experiences.
2007-06-19 20:10:19 · answer #1 · answered by Ben710 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shape Behavior
2016-12-18 07:07:57 · answer #2 · answered by veldkamp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear is a strong "shaper".. I see fear as many different things.
For me, before I understood it, fear was like.. something I avoided at all costs. Fear represented bad choices, bad ideas.. it was everything negative.
But now, as I've grown and.. experienced.. I see fear can be used.. and removed, controlled. So that it no longer shapes us, but we shape it. Really. Fear is an extra, when something frightening happens.. if you remove it the situation just becomes more manageable.
But, there are times when fear is a good feeling. If you think of it as nervous.. or.. suspenseful. Like a good, suspenseful story.. or your first kiss with a new partner..
Truth is.. if you learn to remove yourself, you realize you can really manipulate any atmosphere to what you want it to be.
But I'm going off on a tangent. Point is.. depending on who you are.. fear can shape everything in your life. Being afraid of rejection, afraid of mistakes, afraid of loss and pain, afraid of consequences. Almost every living being has felt each of these, and yet some of us handle it so much differently than others. Some of us succumb and some of us rise above it.
Fear can make people act paranoid, or just weak. The single reason people lie is because they are afraid.
To other people, such as myself, it gives us strength.
2007-06-19 22:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by Liz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have social phobia which is a fear of being with people in social situations. Since I have this fear, I basically try to avoid social situations such as parties and group meetings unless I have a very serious reason to be there. So this fear does have a very profound effect on my behavior - basically I am running away from something that makes me uncomfortable.
2007-06-19 23:32:57 · answer #4 · answered by happy inside 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With all do respect, fear has no shape. In essence fear is base on a psychological effect, specifically in human kind. If one could shape "Fear" it would consists of nothing but the mere reaction on what people are told to fear about, and that my dear friend, simply would be poor decision making as well as wrong. All we have look at as a contemporary example of this, is action based on fear at a great level is WMD as we hear other powerful countries are protecting them selves, from the fear by acquiring them. This will undeniably be the future of the end. Of course based on fear, in other words it can turned out to be a world wide reaction based on emotions caused by fear.Inability to communicate, in this case luck of DIPLOMACY. Lets keep sanity and our minds clean of fear as this is the path to the real truth. Give the world a chance do your part it all stats with you, your family,your community, your City, your State, your country and our world.
2007-06-19 21:16:16 · answer #5 · answered by ponciano888 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people see hell from a physical human concept, hell that God speaks of is a spiritual hell. God speaks of hell and damnation that is not of this physical world and it is this that most believers fear the most. It's that spiritual fear that has shaped the morals of society, of course much is changing now because we have those that do not believe and so tare away at the bible by criticizing and belittling those that do believe. None believers simply have a belief that one is born grow old and die and that's the end of it. Well I have a message for you none believers your all spiritual beings just like us believers and we all are having a physical human experience here on earth and our time here is short. The spiritual entity we are will return to a spiritual realm in which we all came from and there will God judge us all. May God have mercy on us all.
2016-03-14 02:48:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A healthy dose of fear is good for you. Just like a healthy dose of insane berserker behavior is good for you. You combine these two to find a mean, or average, which we call courage.
Fear is essential.
However if you look at the virtue of courage as a scale
Fear Courage Insanity
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We see that fear should not outweigh insanity.
Human beings are also more likely to call an imbalance in favor of insanity courage, than an imbalance in favor of fear.
2007-06-19 21:50:01 · answer #7 · answered by Born at an early age 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it makes us choose fight or flight. We face our fear or we run from it.
We make the choice of how to deal with the fear. Those who burry fear and carry it around like baggage never get away from the fear. And there is never resolution.
2007-06-19 20:40:27 · answer #8 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mostly it causes us to run away.
This isn't meant to be a flippant answer, it is man's (and certainly an animal's) natural reaction to fear and danger.
2007-06-19 20:07:50 · answer #9 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe that fear and pain are what mold people into who they are. you react to fear in diffrent ways depending on the situation. pain keeps you alive ant knowing how mutch pain you can take is a very important thing
2007-06-19 20:15:52 · answer #10 · answered by badmp35 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋