Terror seeks to provoke violence, provoke rage, provoke fear, provoke overreaction, provoke tribalism and knee-jerk reactions.
Although often considered its own condition, claustrophobia is actually a form of anxiety disorder that is provoked by a fear of being enclosed or having no escape.
According to Freud, the consequence of not obeying our conscience is guilt, which can be a factor in the development of neurosis; Freud claimed that both the cultural and individual super-ego set up strict ideal demands with regard to the moral aspects of certain decisions, disobedience to which provokes a 'fear of conscience'.
Starting the season with one of the biggest fixtures of the entire calendar also provokes mixed feelings, a fear that it will be like starting a feast with dessert.
But mistakes can happen to anybody, and they provoke a visceral fear that is real".
The group shots, the men caged and contained, provoke in me a fear for the subjects and also a fear of them.
American officials have long warned that Western involvement could stir anti-Western sentiment and provoke terrorist attacks, a fear that seemed to be realized when militants stormed a gas facility in Algeria last week, resulting in the deaths of at least 37 foreign hostages.
Do they choose a candidate who represents their politics or one who, opinion polls suggest, is most likely to defeat the woman whose presence as one of two candidates in the second-round runoff in a fortnight seems a given, but whose name still provokes a frisson of fear for many: the far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen, with her anti-Europe, anti-immigration, "French-first" programme?
have causal effects on his body and vice versa: A child touches a hot stove (physical event) which causes pain (mental event) and makes her yell (physical event), this in turn provokes a sense of fear and protectiveness in the caregiver (mental event), and so on.
A fear of provoking a reaction means some even refuse to take part at all.
Transition point The point at which the severity of the pandemic provokes sufficient fear to invoke a sudden increase in prophylactic absenteeism within the population.
