Because of our daily interactions as black men, our thresholds of fear, for better or worse, usually rest higher on the scale than others, since we live with a daily cloud of threat over our heads on our home turf.
Encroaching age and a higher threshold of fear allow me to admit total bewilderment at Mr. Babbitt's Second Piano Concerto.
There, where audience members are cast as subjects in a study on the threshold of fear, a live rat keeps things stimulating.
Banks have opposed the thresholds out of fear that examiners would treat them as absolute limits on lucrative real estate holdings.
During the spring of 2000, Klug's fear threshold would be tested again and again, from the night he felt a sharp pain signaling the escalation of the unpredictable disease to the days he felt his sturdy 6-foot-3 body grow weaker, from the dark moments he pondered death to the agony of a 90-day wait atop a transplant list.
Fig. S6 Acute administration of desipramine does not affect the performance in the baseline behavior, freezing behavior during the training of fear conditioning, the pain thresholds or the open-field test.
Fig. S5 Adenovirus-mediated GluR1 overexpression has no effect on the baseline behavior, freezing behavior during the training of fear conditioning, the pain thresholds or the open-field test.
This makes sense because, if an aversive US meets a certain threshold of intensity, developing fear and avoidance would seem to provide an unequivocal survival advantage.
The validity of the bivariate threshold model to the fear data divided in three categories, was assessed in PRELIS (Jöreskog and Sörbom 1996).
Since phobic fear is not normally distributed in the population we used a multiple threshold model (see Fig. 1) to estimate the genetic and environmental contributions to the liability of phobic fear.
