Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trembled, their palms sweated. If anything, they were more nervous than those who reported the crisis. "The bystander," conclude Darley and Latané, is, in fact, "an anguished individual in genuine doubt, concerned to do the right thing but compelled to make complex decisions under pressure of stress and fear...
...five days he came to see through this fear. What had happened was not a brainwashing, not an emptying of his mind that threatened to turn him into a living dead man, an intellectual zombie. What he had experienced was a slowing down, a clearing away of the garbage that made it possible to sit for hours with a single thought to play with a thought, to draw it out, and enjoy it like a poem, to contem- plate its fullness, to exhaust it, and then move on to the next...
...ages of 18 and 55, the Harvard Center for Research in Personality would like to cure you. Under the direction of Bruce L. Baker, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology in Social Relations, the Center will continue last year's free clinic for treating and curing cases of acrophobia (fear of heights), claustrophobia (fear of closed spaces), and fear of speaking in public...
Cohen said that a phobia is not simply a fear. "Someone who is nervous about addressing 10,000 people in the Boston Garden is not necessarily a phobic. But the guy who cuts his seminar because he is afraid that he will be called upon to speak has a crippling disability...
Most of the respondents have reasonably serious phobias. "They know as well as we do what the problem is. It's not some general neurosis, but a narrowly specific fear. Our approach," he said, "will be behavior therapy, not psychotherapy. In other words we don't put people on a couch and bring in a bearded German doctor with a notebook...