Kish Gephart, Jennifer, James R. Detert, Linda K. Trevino, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work." Research ...

Fear is an emotional response to a perceived specific threat. Although fear is an essential survival mechanism, when it becomes persistent, it might lead to anxiety, or manifest as a specific ...

Why do some people seek out terrifying experiences, while others avoid fear at all costs? Why does fear spur some to fight and leave others frozen? Although the emotion of fear is as old as life ...

We can be especially jealous and can feel schadenfreude. Yet we share at least one fundamental emotion with many other species: fear. That primordial emotion, as I describe in my latest book, The ...

The Science of Fear, a documentary from The Nature of Things, we meet Margee Kerr, a sociologist who studies fear and is an expert on haunted houses. Kerr believes that the popularity of these ...