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The psychology of fear.

Although fear has been classified as an emotion by psychologists, it’s a very basic human and can be almost considered as a simple feeling. In fact if emotions comprise of feelings and bodily reactions, then fear would be the basic feeling component of anxiety or phobias as has been explained in the psychologyof emotions. Fear could bethus both a feeling and an emotion yet fear as an entirely subjective or mental feeling component would be difficult to detect as it would not be accompanied by visible or noticeable physical reactions as in fear as an emotion.anxiety on the other hand is considered a distinct internalized emotion as it arises internally from a perceived threat rather than fear which is due to external stimuli. Fear could be defined as an externalizd emotion or feeling which may or may not br accompanied by bodily reactions and fear could be consicous or unconscious.

A pyschology of fear would distinguish fear as an emotion and fear as a feeling, fear as conscious and fear as unconscious as well as fear with bodily reactions and fear without bodily reactions and fear in anxiety and fear in phobias.

Fear as emotions - fear when accompnied by bodily reactions would signify strong eotional response to a situation or a object or event.

Fear as feelings- fear could however be simply manifested as a subjective feeling.

Fear in anxiety - fear as feeling could also be the subjective vasis of anxiety as when internalized and even unexplained anxiety has a general of a fear.

Fear in phobias –consist of persistent pathological emotional response towards spesific objects or events.