Game Induced Fear

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Fear is a common emotion that humans feel when something that they don’t understand occurs.

Fear is a phycological element that causes one to feel unpleasant emotions by belief that something is of threat. It relates directly with prejudice as ignorance breeds agitation for

There is always that one scary movie that everyone loves to watch. The one that gets them everytime something jumps out. What about going up to a friend when they are not looking and yelling "boo"! Fearful right? In some cases its not even those things people fear. It could very well be an intense fear reaction to a particular thing. Hopefully, after reading this essay, there will be a greater understanding to fear, how it is triggered, and why it happens.

Has fear ever had its monster like terrifying grip on you? Have you ever shrieked and panic as someone frightened you? We all know the insidious monster like feeling known as fear. This emotion can manipulate people’s lives just as a puppeteer manipulates a puppet, terrify leaving us with intangible wounds that almost never heal, and can drive us to the brink of insanity.

While there are many people who believe that violent video games promotes violent behaviors, the issue is much more complicated than that. In the scholarly article, “Denying Humanness to Others: A Newly Discovered Mechanism by

Fear is a deep emotion that runs havoc on your brain and organs. When you encounter a fearful situation, your brain feels like it is in some type of trouble, sending signals through your nervous system. All humans have fear. Those who have authority however, are trained on how to face many of their fears, but there are a few scenarios they cannot control.

According to a translational neuroscientist , he stated that the reason for the brain to react with it stimulus response is by a neurotransmitter called dopamine, it helps to control our brain reward. He also explain how the process works. There are two roadways for the brain. One is low road and the other is the high road. The low road is responsible for what you see, smell and hear, it signals the brain to react the fear. It send your body to scream, run , or have your heart beat fast while the high road which is the cortical center in your brain to signals something that you already use to like i've seen that spider before so therefore I’m not going to be afraid.

I believe fear is our imagination getting the best of us. For example, when someone watches a scary movie and they go to bed their mind starts to wander turning simple objects in their room into a supernatural

Fear of loss Fear of the unknown Fear of failure Fear of loneliness Fear of death Fear occurs as a response to something that is perceived as being threatening, dangerous or harmful. Fear causes a person to feel nervous, anxious and even impairs bodily functions by

In human nature there exists a morbid desire to explore the darker realms of life. As sensitive beings we make every effort to deny our curiosity in the things that frighten us, and will calmly reassure our children that there aren't any creatures under their beds each night, but deep down we secretly thrive on that cool rush of fear. Despite our efforts to maintain a balance of respectable emotions, we are a society of people who slow down to look at traffic accidents and find excitement in the macabre. We turn off the lights when watching scary movies, and when it's time to go to bed, we secretly make sure the closet doors are shut. Fear keeps our hearts pumping and endorphins rushing, for it is an emotion that reminds us of our

Fear is a feeling induced by experience, perceived danger, or watching a frightening traumatic accident. The fear responses arise from the perception of danger and ultimately a change in behaviour, such as fleeing, or hiding or from perceived traumatic events. Every person has fears and different fears may be different adaptations that have been useful in our evolutionary past. I have fears too, and sometime, I feel embarrassed to intersperse my fear with others.

It is normal in human nature to be afraid of the unknown. We fear what we do not know because of the uncertainty behind it and the hypothetical worst-case scenario. One of the main reasons there are people that associate video games with violence is because they do not understand the concept of it. The older members of society do not get why the younger generation play these video games without becoming dysfunctional members of humanity. Pacifique Irankunda wrote a journal describing his experience growing up during the Burundian Civil War, his one-sided “friendship” with an inherently abusive classmate, and how he was introduced to violent video game genre. Irankunda had seen his village turn from a peaceful, silent home to a bloodshed side

Gunshot says in his article that, video games are very violent. Gamers are emotionally connected to the game. When they have a choice to act violent towards opponents and when they choses do so they feel guilty and emotionally responsible. Gunshot interviewed a game designer named Will Wright agrees with Gunshot’s theory.

The ‘fear-relevant’ stimuli shown in this experiment was colour images of different spiders while the ‘fear-irrelevant’ stimuli were pictures of