Tag: fear

It feels as if we stand at the mouth of a cave that has kept us safely hidden during dangerous times, worried about what happens if we leave it behind

The model of bloodthirsty feelings is the vampire, an undead creature that is motivated by an irresistible desire to drink human blood.

We get an eerie feeling in the shadows because we know, deep in our hearts, what is there, waiting to be unseen.

Pretending that death isn’t something to be bothered about is obviously unrealistic, but there’s no clinical term to describe the psychopathology of people who deny the reality of death.

To feel envy is to feel a hunger for something that someone has, whether it’s a concrete object, or less tangibly, an identity or way of life. Jealousy is a desperate view from… more emotion Jealousy

In the middle of the last century, psychologist Paul Ekman declared, on the basis of a thin body of poorly-designed research, that all of human emotional experience can be reduced to just six… more emotion Revolted

There are those who believe that it’s enough to identify the general emotion of anxiety and leave it at that. The problem with that generalist approach, however, is that it either assumes that… more emotion Butterflies in the Stomach

Are you afraid? Fear is such a generic thing that it’s hard to say how any genuine fear could possibly be described by that term alone. We experience many different kinds of fear,… more emotion Spooked

There will come a day when people will look back at the use of smartphones in our time much in the same way that we look back on the use of lead in… more emotion Nomophobia