This, he thought, was interesting – according to other research, downward-pointing triangles are perceived as threatening.
Faces of others are perceived as threatening by social phobic patients (SPP).
Elsewhere, teenagers boasted of the violence they wanted to enact to avenge their friend's death, all the while complaining that they were wrongly perceived as threatening.
Prior to her birth, Khalili's father, an editor and writer, was temporarily exiled for works that were perceived as threatening to the government.
Troops are also told to construct checkpoints more carefully to give more space to maneuver and potentially avoid shooting at vehicles perceived as threatening.
"Orban is no Milosevic when it comes to using force," said Mr. Gati, "but in that part of the world, such talk doesn't have to be immediately threatening to be perceived as threatening".
This threat is real, and physical, in that Ketill kills its inhabitants; at the same time, the old world can be perceived as threatening to the world of the saga's audience (the contemporary, "new" or human world of medieval Iceland).
While Beijing's underground music scene is generally under the authorities' radar — hip-hop, indie rock and reggae groups perform regularly at nightclubs here — the producers representing broadcast media in China avoid musicians perceived as threatening.
The protest follows an incident in North Carolina last month, in which a student complained online about his school's relationship with Higher One in remarks the school perceived as threatening, leading to his temporary suspension.
Representative Robert Brady, a Democrat of Pennsylvania, has proposed making it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening violence against all federal officials, an idea dangerously full of potential First Amendment violations.
Situations perceived as threatening can cause individuals to experience anxiety with the potential for less effective functioning (Edelman and Ficorelli 2005).
