It also explores divisions created by race, culture and class, and indicates how simple acts of friendship can erase fear and ignorance.
Ms. Jeffers's thesis in most of her books was simple: If we wait to stop feeling scared before trying to do what frightens us, we could wait forever; pressing ahead is the only way to erase fear.
Retrieving fear memories just prior to extinction has been reported to effectively erase fear memories and prevent fear relapse.
I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.
Although mere contact doesn't erase fear and mistrust, a shared task that all parties care about replaces tribal instincts with other motivations.
Hence, extinction procedures do not erase fear memory, but yield a new safety memory that inhibits fear under certain conditions.
The accelerating recession at least temporarily erased fears over rising inflation, with the consumer price index up little more than 1% in 2008.
No one died in the two-hour operation, the police said, erasing fears of a bloodbath that would further stain Rio's reputation as one of the most violent cities in the world.
Mr. Bernanke and his supporters say that the purchases have improved economic conditions, all but erasing fears of deflation, a pattern of falling prices that can delay purchases and stall growth.
Science has emerged a winner in this year's struggle over the Department of Energy's (DOE's) budget, erasing fears earlier this summer of severe cuts in several high-profile programs.
