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...more than enough to seize the brain's attention and serve as a repository for incipient fears. "Temperament also seems to be critical," says Craske. "Two people can go through the exact same traumatic event, but the high-strung, emotionally sensitive person is more vulnerable to the fear." Even secondhand fears--watching Mom or Dad react with exaggerated terror to a cockroach or a drop of blood, for example--may play a role. The journal Nature last week reported a study in which researchers performed scans on the fear centers of volunteers' brains and found that when the subjects were...
...This week, the Appeals Court judges took a different view, arguing that there is no direct causal link between the site's plea for "evidence" and the deaths of several doctors and clinic workers listed on the site, and cited the distinction between a direct threat and secondhand encouragement. If the site "merely encouraged unrelated terrorists," Judge Alex Kozinski wrote, "then their words are protected by the First Amendment...
...most common secondhand effect experienced by students on campus is "babysitting," taking care of their peers who have had too much to drink...
Wechsler likens the effects of binge drinking to the dangers associated with secondhand smoke--non-drinking students suffer when their peers are drinking around them...
...People used to smoke all the time, everywhere. They'd blow smoke in your face, have no regard for non-smokers or others around them," he says. "[But now], once the results of secondhand smoke have been publicized, smokers have to go outside of buildings, out in the cold...