Recent research has indicated that vicarious learning can lead to increases in children's fear beliefs and avoidance preferences for stimuli and that these fear responses can subsequently be reversed using positive modeling (counterconditioning). The current study investigated children's vicariously acquired avoidance behavior, physiological responses (heart rate), and attentional bias for stim...

Background & Aims: The current study aimed to investigate the role of catastrophizing as mediator variable in the relationship of neuroticism and extraversion with fear of movement and pain intensity in patients with musculoskeletal pain. Methods: This study was conducted on 200 subjects who were selected through purposive sampling from among the clients of Sh...

Objectives: Among the residents of Tehran province (Iran), 415 people were selected by the available sampling method. Method: Research data was obtained through online questionnaires that were distributed to participants through platforms such as Instagram, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Broadbent's Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) and the scale of fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19)  were used in this s...

Most previous research into emotion recognition used either a single modality or multiple modalities of physiological signal. However, the former method allows for limited enhancement of accuracy, and the latter has the disadvantages that its performance can be affected by head or body movements. Further, the latter causes inconvenience to the user due to the sensors attached to the body. Among...

background: fear of falling is common amongst older adults, especially those who live in nursing homes. this study aimed to determinate factors associated with fear of falling and functional independence in older adults living in nursing homes. methods: this was a cross-sectional study using a convenience sampling method to enroll 200 older adults living in nursing homes from 25 senior centers ...

According to the fear module theory, humans are evolutionarily predisposed to perceive snakes as prioritized stimuli and exhibit a fast emotional and behavioral response toward them. In Europe, highly dangerous snake species are distributed almost exclusively in the Mediterranean and Caspian areas. While the risk of a snakebite is relatively low in Central Europe, Azerbaijan, on the other hand,...

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between university students' fear negative evaluation and their academic dishonesty tendencies compare them in terms various variables. sample carried out relational screening model consists 306 students, who were selected by easily accessible sampling method among students studying at Yozgat Bozok University, Turkey year 2019-2020. "Personal...