Fear Of Judgment
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Using fMRI to Dissect Moral Judgment
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2023
Source: William Brady & Jay Van Bavel—New York University In examining the roles of reason and emotion in moral judgments, psychologists and philosophers alike point to the trolley dilemma and the footbridge dilemma. With the trolley dilemma, most people say that it is appropriate to pull a switch to stop a train from hitting five people by diverting it to kill one person. However, with the footbridge dilemma, most people say it is inappropriate to push a large man off of a bridge in order...
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Fear Conditioning
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2023
Fear Conditioning is a type of learning in which an association is established between a negative unpleasant event and a harmless stimulus. This leads to a fear of the harmless stimulus. This process is largely mediated by the amygdala, which is a brain region involved in emotions and stress reactions. Fear conditioning can be utilized in several ways to understand different aspects of learning and memory. This video presents an overview of the principles behind fear conditioning, discusses the...
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Evaluating the Accuracy of Snap Judgments
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2023
Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Social psychologists have long been interested in the way people form impressions of others. Much of this work has focused on the errors people make in judging others, such as the exaggerated influence of central traits (such as "warm" and "cold"), the insufficient weight given to the context in which others' behavior takes place, and the tendency for people to make judgments that conform to their initial expectations about another.
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Trace Fear Conditioning in Mice
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2014
In the following experiment we describe a protocol for trace fear conditioning in mice. This type of associative memory includes a trace period that separates the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
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Extinction Training During the Reconsolidation Window Prevents Recovery of Fear
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2012
Conditioned fear can be diminished through an inhibitory process called extinction, but can resurface under conditions such as the passage of time or exposure to stress. Our protocol presents a novel way of preventing fear recovery by introducing extinction during the reconsolidation window (the re-storage phase of a reactivated memory).
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The response becomes stronger when a person interprets a social situation as threatening rather than manageable. Attention may shift toward possible mistakes, while the person predicts criticism, rejection, or devaluation. These appraisals increase emotional discomfort and can make ordinary interactions or performance situations feel more risky, influencing whether the person participates or withdraws.
Avoiding a social or performance situation can reduce discomfort immediately, which makes avoidance more likely in the future. However, because the person does not remain in the situation long enough to examine whether the feared outcome occurs, the original concern remains untested. This short-term relief can therefore preserve the expectation of negative evaluation.
Safety behaviors are actions used to manage anticipated negative evaluation during social situations, although the overview does not specify particular examples. Like avoidance, they may reduce distress briefly while preventing a person from testing feared predictions directly. Their continued use can help maintain concerns about judgment and contributes to understanding how social anxiety affects participation.
Concern about evaluation can shape whether people enter, remain in, or avoid everyday social and performance situations. Repeated attention to possible mistakes and predictions of rejection may increase distress and restrict participation. In psychology, examining these effects connects fear of judgment with broader questions about social anxiety, functioning, and emotional well-being.
Cognitive behavioral strategies target the thoughts and behaviors that keep fear of judgment going. They can help a person examine feared predictions, develop more balanced appraisals, and notice how avoidance or safety behaviors affect distress. The aim is not simply to suppress discomfort, but to create opportunities for more accurate evaluation of anticipated social outcomes.
Gradual engagement provides a structured way to approach valued social or performance situations rather than avoiding them entirely. As engagement increases, a person can test predictions about criticism, rejection, or devaluation and develop balanced appraisals based on the experience. This approach directly addresses the cycle in which avoidance produces short-term relief but preserves concern.
Studying fear of judgment helps explain how social threat appraisals, focused attention, predictions of negative evaluation, and avoidance interact. It also provides a framework for understanding social anxiety and reduced participation in everyday activities. Findings from this area can inform cognitive behavioral approaches that support engagement in situations a person considers valuable.