fear

The multi-dimensional theory of fear of failure stated that "fear of failure is the tendency to appraise threat to the achievement of personally meaningful goals when one fails in the performance, that failure is perceived as threatening and feared, by individuals who associate it with aversive consequences"10.

Our results showed that majority of the children were feared from failing in a test (62.3%) followed by fear from getting a shock from electricity (59.3%), bear or wolves (57.6%), falling from high places (56.8%), getting poor grades (56.4%) and getting hit by a car or truck (56.4%).

In this study, participants who feared spiders were asked to undergo five encounters with live spiders - tarantulas, in fact - and then provide size estimates of the spiders after those encounters ended.

Indeed, research using computerized images shows that people with phobias overestimate the extent to which feared stimuli, like photographs of spiders, are hurtling toward them.

Fear God as He should be feared and die not except in a state of Islam' (III: 102).

More than half of all the children said they were afraid of pain, and more than a quarter of them feared being admitted to a hospital.

"Facing Fear" is an intriguing read about how fear itself is truly the only thing that needs to be feared.

If it is an object your child fears, you can allow your child to gradually approach the feared object.

He feared that something might be wrong, and so he sent me for further testing.