Funny, because for all the violent video games I've played, I'm afraid of all forms of real life confrontation.
The other reason is that a split-second judgment in a real life confrontation bears little resemblance to shooting at a cardboard target, or to the plot line of a typical crime melodrama.
Other types of exposure, such as imaginal or interoceptive exposure, are more indirectly aimed at a real life confrontation with anxiety-provoking work situations.
Imaginal exposure, for example, is aimed at cognitive restructuring and can be used in preparation for a real life confrontation with anxiety-provoking situations.
You might feel safer responding in kind from the relative "safety" of your computer, but this will only increase the problem, and could result in flame wars and real life confrontation.
The performance was magnificent, with the brasses again stellar, and it vividly evoked the colorful characters and larger-than-life confrontations that these players know so well from their work in the pit.
The training includes all sorts of scenarios the officers may have to deal with in real-life confrontations.
Nothing works better to teach children about bigotry than a real-life confrontation.
Twitter and Facebook have both offered similar features for some time, helping us passively ignore people online to avoid real-life confrontation.
A convincing day-in-the-life develops: confrontations with a fly swat, a dizzying encircling of a lightbulb, a close encounter with an iced cake.
Badly beaten but still game, Adonis ends up in solitary, and in a way the movie is over before it starts: the terrifying future at hand is a life of confrontation with monstrously hostile or indifferent authority, a violent struggle to survive while bearing the stigmata of social exclusion.
