"Being Afraid Is All In Your Mind"

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"A lot of our fears and anxieties are learned through communication." According to this article, the things that we hear may affect us as much as the things that we have actually experienced. In other words, when it comes to our brain, we may react in the same way when someone tells us there is a threat as we do when we have actually experienced this threat. To me, this is vaguely similar to classical conditioning in that we may react to a conditioned stimulus (being told there is a threat) even when the unconditioned stimulus (an actual threat) is not present. There have been many studies on this particular subject and the purpose



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Elizabeth Phelps, , York University, actually experienced,

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