Sentence examples for fearful response from inspiring English sources

We can't afford it, it does no good, it leads to more war, it is a helpless and fearful response to helplessness and fear.

Finally, infants begin displaying signs of the emotion of fear by their fourth to sixth month; a fearful response to novelty i.e., to events that are moderately discrepant from the infant's knowledge can be observed as early as four months.

PTSD occurs when a terrifying event overstimulates a sympathetic 'fight-or-flight' hormonal response, which then strengthens its memory (the conditioned fear) and later manifests as an over-reactive fearful response to reminders of the event [ 41, 42].

And this impending doom has colored the party's frantic, fearful response to the Obama presidency.

To be revealed as gay, or thought of as gay, still elicits a fearful response in far too many people.

Susan Estrich, who ran Michael S. Dukakis's 1988 presidential campaign, said the impulse to appear consistent above almost all else is a fearful response but not altogether unwarranted.

Similarly, Verwoerd et al. (2013) reported that participants who exhibited more contamination fear tended to exhibit more fearful responses to reading stories containing disgust-related content.

More than the risk of radiation, those excessively fearful responses and their ramifications for society are what keep emergency planners and counterterrorism officials up at night.

Many people, black and white, expressed appreciation that the president had ventured beyond the debate over Stand Your Ground laws to broach delicate subjects like the high crime rate among young black men and the profiling and fearful responses that many black men say they face, corroding their faith in the system and themselves.

Children with autism may display unusual or fearful responses to common stimuli, such as skin care products.

Although neither of these groups differed on self-reported levels of fearfulness, the psychopathic inmates showed reduced physiological responses to the imaginary emotional situations compared to non-psychopathic inmates, indicating deficient fearful responses in psychopaths.