The ethological deconstruction of fear(s)
- Creators
- Mobbs, Dean
Abstract
The natural world presents a myriad of dangers that can threaten an organism's survival. This diversity of threats is matched by a set of universal and species specific defensive behaviors which are often subsumed under the emotions of fear and anxiety. A major issue in the field of affective science, however, is that these emotions are often conflated and scientists fail to reflect the ecological conditions that gave rise to them. I attempt to clarify these semantic issues by describing the link between ethologically defined defensive strategies and fear. This in turn, provides a clearer differentiation between fears, the contexts that evoke them and how they are organized within defensive survival circuits.
Additional Information
© 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Available online 20 March 2018. I wish to thank Ralph Adolphs and Joe LeDoux for their advice. This paper was supported by a grant from the NARSAD, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant 2P50MH094258, and Chen Institute Award (P2026052) grants to DM. Conflict of interest statement: Nothing declared.Attached Files
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- PMCID
- PMC6715320
- Eprint ID
- 85455
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20180327-110701394
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
- 2P50MH094258
- NIH
- P2026052
- Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience
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2018-03-27Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2022-03-15Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience