Psychology of Fear

their lives. When a person finds itself in a difficult situation or

is threatened by something, then fear is contemplated to be the

appropriate response of the body. Fear is an emotion which

one feels when he/she experiences or passes through a

dangerous situation or through a situation of perceived threat.

When the body experiences the feeling or emotion of fear, it

responds in two ways: Biochemical Reaction and Emotional

Response. Biochemical response of the body is generally

referred to as the fight or flight response of the body in which

the body prepares itself to either fight with the situation or fly

away from the situation. This is considered to be an

evolutionary development which is important for our survival.

Every individual’s way of physically reacting to fear is more or

less the same however the emotional response is contemplated

to be a personalized response of the body to fear and hence

differs from one individual to another.

The subject of Psychology of Fear differentiates fear as

conscious, and fear as an unconscious, fear as emotion and

fear as a feeling, fear as anxiety and fear in phobias and lastly

fear with bodily actions and fear without bodily actions. This is

done in order to understand the nature of fear and then take

a probable course of action to cure it.