Glossary F

Glossary F

Fear refers to an unpleasant emotional reaction experienced in the face of perceived danger. It builds quickly in intensity and helps to organize the person's responses to threats from the environment.

Fear appeals is defined as efforts to change attitudes by arousing fear to induce the motivation to change behavior. Fear appeals are used to try to get people to change poor health habits.

Fear of Meaninglessness refers to the fear of having no direction, purpose, or ultimate

Fear stage refers to the third emotional stage following the announcement of a layoff, in which employees worry about how they will survive financially.

Fear-arousing communication refers to persuasive messages that attempt to change people's attitudes by arousing their fears.

Fear-arousing communications is defined as persuasive messages that attempt to change people's attitudes by arousing their fears

Fear-Induced Aggression (aggression associated with attempts to flee from a threat) refers to the responses believed to be biologically programmed into humans so that we act in an aggressive manner towards any form of forced confinement.

Fearful avoidant attachment refers to an attachment outcome in which people have a negative model of both self and others. It is a style of attachment in which people have both high anxiety and high avoidance ; they have low opinions of themselves and keep others from getting close