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Fear : across the disciplines /
This volume provides a cross-disciplinary examination of fear, that most unruly of our emotions, by offering a survey of the psychological, biological, and philosophical basis of fear in historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors, leading figures in clinical psychology, neuroscience, the...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
©2012.
©2012 |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Benjamin Lazier and Jan Plamper
- Fear, anxiety, and their disorders / Richard J. McNally
- The biology of fear : evolutionary, neural, and psychological perspectives / Arne Ohman
- How did fear become a scientific object and what kind of object is it? / Ruth Leys
- Soldiers and emotion in early twentieth-century Russian military psychology / Jan Plamper
- Fear of a safe place / Jan Mieszkowski
- The language of fear : security and modern politics / Corey Robin
- The New York stock market crash of 1929 / Harold James
- Living dead : fearful attractions of film / Adam Lowenstein.