FIX - The Fear Index: Measuring Market Fear

Greed, fear and stock market dynamics

We present a behavioral stock market model in which traders are driven by greed and fear. In general, the agents optimistically believe in rising markets and thus buy stocks. But if stock prices change too abruptly, they panic and sell stocks. Our model mimics some stylized facts of stock market dynamics: (1) stock prices increase over time, (2) stock markets sometimes crash, (3) stock prices s...

Overcoming the Fear of Lecture

نقش ما در مراقبتهای بهداشتی، توسعه مهارتهای مراقبتی از بیماران است و این متضمن داشتن قدرت بیان مؤثر است، این قدرت بیان را نه تنها در جمع همکاران بلکه باید در جلسات نیز داشت، آنهم نه در برابر پنج نفر بلکه در برابر پانصد نفر، که این تسلط بیان را نه تنها هنگامی که شرایط مساعد است، بلکه به هنگام مناقشه و جر و بحث نیز  باید دارا بود.

Fear

What is the revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children measuring?

This study was designed to investigate parameters of children's fear in terms of frequency of fearful thoughts and avoidance behaviour. It is suggested that current measures such as the Fear Survey Schedule for Children--Revised (FSSC-R) do not assess fearful behaviour in the sense of the occurrence of fearful responding in daily life, but rather reflect a negative affective response to the tho...

Are fear memories erasable?–reconsolidation of learned fear with fear-relevant and fear-irrelevant stimuli

Recent advances in the field of fear learning have demonstrated that a single reminder exposure prior to extinction training can prevent the return of extinguished fear by disrupting the process of reconsolidation. These findings have however proven hard to replicate in humans. Given the significant implications of preventing the return of fear, the purpose of the present study was to further s...