But in evoking a fear of darkness and of shrieking batlike things slicing at you when the lights go out, the movie shrewdly taps into the lurking primal terrors of anyone who ever had to sleep with a night light.
But, beyond this practical sense of bombs in the sky evoking a fear of war and weapons close to home, I was also feeling a more existential disappointment.
Circumcision in adolescence or adulthood may evoke a fear of pain, penile damage or reduced sexual pleasure, even though unfounded.
We realize that our focus on the modes of subjective experience, the notions of Gestalt/prototype and context, is likely to evoke a fear of looming unreliability and subjectivism (i.e., of a methodological regression, rekindling memories of the psychoanalytic domination of psychiatry).
There are data showing that the state of anxiety (which is closely related to tension arousal in our study) lowers the threshold for evoking a fear response to threatening stimuli which, on the other hand, can initiate affective control mechanisms (Bishop 2008).
Nevertheless, the arrival of illegal boats filled with Asians evokes a primordial fear here, one that has been instilled over past decades of anti-Asian immigration policies and is still stoked by conservative politicians.
Cate Blanchett's Jasmine, snobby and condescending and affected as she is, evokes a common fear, and Blanchett, in the performance of her career, turned dismay and craziness into lyricism (which was inflected, as few people noticed, with elements of self-parody).
After several pairings the neutral cue evokes a phasic fear response and the context evokes a sustained anxiety response (Marks, 1987).
However, some researchers have argued that forcing an animal to be in an enclosed area, or on an open platform, does not allow the animal to exhibit its 'motivation' to explore an unknown environment, as the task evokes a strong fear response (Birke and Sadler, 1986; Denenberg, 1969; Renner, 1990; Walsh and Cummins, 1976).
"One half of you feels the urge to run away, the other half needs to know what lies inside of the unknown: complete darkness evokes an irrational fear that can affect your mind so intense that you end up being afraid of everything and everyone.
