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La peur exponentielle
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris (6, avenue Reille 75685) : P.U.F.,

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C'est une nouvelle venue à ajouter à la liste de nos peurs collectives, et son objet est des plus inattendus : un concept mathématique abstrait. Déclinable à l'infini, la peur de l'exponentielle est une réalité contemporaine aussi répandue que méconnue. Scientifiquement construite bien que parfaitement irrationnelle, elle constitue la matrice originelle de quantité de discours alarmistes fondés sur la crainte que nous irions collectivement bientôt heurter de plein fouet les limites du monde : épuisement des ressources naturelles, démographie mondiale, réchauffement climatique. La première partie s'intéresse à la structure de la peur. Affirmer le caractère exponentiel d'un phénomène permet à peu de frais de prophétiser une catastrophe. La seconde partie mène une critique de cette peur, qui peut conduire au rejet de l'autre (peurs démographiques, critique du « juif usurier »). La troisième partie s'intéresse à l'histoire des représentations sociales liées : idée de croissance proportionnelle sous-jacente au « passage du local au global », étroitesse supposée du monde, visions anciennes de l'exponentielle comme créatrice de richesses (par exemple grâce à la magie des intérêts composés), et établit un lien avec le « désir mimétique » de René Girard. La dernière partie propose des pistes pour surmonter la peur : dépassement de la sidération causée par les grands nombres de l'exponentielle, reconsidération de notre rapport au temps et à l'infini. Benoît Rittaud est mathématicien et essayiste, maître de conférences hors-classe à l'université Paris 13 (Sorbonne-Paris-Cité), habilité à diriger des recherches. Ses travaux académiques concernent les systèmes dynamiques et la théorie des nombres. Ses nombreux ouvrages et articles de mathématiques destinés au grand public lui ont valu plusieurs prix en France et en Italie.

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Fear --- Juvenile literature.


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Facing our darkness : manifestations of fear, horror and terror
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ISBN: 184888429X Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press,

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Empires of Panic
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ISBN: 9888313568 9789888313563 Year: 2015 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press, HKU

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Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings-from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial anxieties, rumors, indigenous resistance, and crises, particularly in relation to epidemic disease. How did Western government agencies, policymakers, planners, and other authorities understand, deal with, and neutralize panics? What role did evolving technologies of communication play in the amplif


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La peur exponentielle
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ISBN: 9782130633693 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,

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Peurs antiques
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Nous vivons une époque où l?on s?interroge sur ses peurs (individuelles, collectives), où l?on apprend à les identifier, et où il est de bon ton de les ±affronter ou de les soigner, puisqu?on les a, en grande partie, médicalisées. Mais il ne serait pas judicieux de juger de la peur dans l?Antiquité à l?aune de nos peurs modernes. C?est pourquoi l?on a tenté, dans cet ouvrage, de cerner et d?approfondir les points suivants : ? Qu?est-ce que la peur ? Comment s?exprime-t-elle? Comment est-elle perçue, en soi ou chez les autres? Quelles sont ses manifestations physiques ou psychologiques ? Quels sont ses degrés, nuances et formes? Comment s?exprime-telle, linguistiquement (lexique, syntaxe)? ? Qu?est-ce qui fait peur, que ce soit au niveau individuel ou collectif? Pourquoi? Quels en sont les témoignages ? Comment en parle-t-on? Y a-t-il des spécificités génériques dans la représentation littéraire du sentiment ? Quel est l?intérêt, pour un auteur, de mettre en scène des peurs? Les études réunies dans ce recueil analysent ainsi la peur comme ressort psychologique ou dramatique, et par rapport aux choix stylistiques des écrivains, dans une perspective transversale et transdisciplinaire : d?Homère au Bas-Empire, chez les auteurs grecs comme latin, en histoire comme en littérature et en linguistique.


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Neural processing of emotion in multimodal settings
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ISBN: 9782889194148 Year: 2015 Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

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Our everyday life is characterized by a multitude of emotionally relevant cues that we perceive and communicate via various sensory channels. This does not only encompass the obvious cases of auditory and visual modalities, but also olfactory, gustatory, and even tactile stimuli. Any kind of emotional situation in a natural setting is usually a multimodal experience: A friend welcomes us with warm words, a smile, and a happy voice; the sight of our favourite food is accompanied by a seductive smell and a delicious taste; the thrill of watching an exciting movie scene is intensified by a gripping soundtrack. In these situations, the signals from various senses do not stand on their own; they interact and create a unified emotional experience. Recent neuroscientific research has begun to accommodate this inherent multimodality of emotions in natural situations by studying the interaction of affectively relevant information from more than one sensory channel. Fascinating new aspects emerge concerning the neurobiology of emotion processing, and there is evidence that integrating emotional cues from various sources invokes brain processes that go beyond the well-known patterns observed during unimodal stimulation. The scope of this Research Topic is to gather novel and interesting studies dealing with the multimodality of emotions and their neural processing. We want to address researchers which are applying novel paradigms such as multimodal virtual reality settings, social interactions, and the combination of the auditory and visual domains with other sensory modalities such as smell, taste, or touch. Referring to this, we explicitly encourage articles describing new experimental approaches and analysis strategies. Our aim is to gain a comprehensive picture of how the brain combines emotionally relevant information from different sensory modalities. In particular, there is an urgent need for the integration of findings from electrophysiological and functional neuroimaging investigations as well as new insights from functional connectivity studies. We are convinced that this volume will be of high interest for a large community of brain researchers dealing with emotion research, social interaction, and complex multimodal integration processes.


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Illusion and reality
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ISBN: 9781781815243 042947573X 1782413928 9781782413929 1781815240 1781815240 1782202854 9781782202851 0429900503 0429914733 Year: 2015 Publisher: London, United Kingdom Karnac Books

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"This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as perfectly rational responses to difficulties in the sufferer's world, experienced subjectively by that person. An essential contrast is drawn between objective conceptions of normality (what reality ought to be as per commercial and other objectifying sources) and the reality of the individual's subjective experience of the world (abuse, unemployment, and so on). Chapters include tackling the myth of normality; examining shyness; and analysing the way in which assumptions behind the use of language can foster anxiety and depression.The book's primary purpose is to explain the meaning of anxiety as experienced by the sufferer. These insights also lead to a view, by way of secondary purpose, that the role of the therapist is not in 'curing' the individual, but rather to negotiate demystification and to provide insight into the effects of the problems in the sufferer's world, based on the sufferer and the therapist's shared subjective understanding. The curative claims of other models of 'treatment' are evaluated.Whilst David Smail's training in psychology and philosophy shines through his analysis, the primary source for his views is his experience as a clinical psychologist working in the NHS in Nottingham seeing 'patients' from all walks of life."--Provided by publisher.


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Fear and fantasy in a global world
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ISBN: 9004306048 9789004306035 900430603X 9789004306042 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam

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At a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such “crises” and “catastrophes” shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World seeks to stir the debate on the processes and meanings of, as well as on the relations between, fear and fantasy in the globalized world. Collective fears and fantasies are analysed from a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives, promoted by the epistemological underpinnings of comparative literature. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the 17 essays here gathered respond to and scrutinize key questions related to the imaginaries of fear and fantasy, as well as their relations to trauma, crisis, anxiety, and representations of both the conscious and the unconscious. Contributors : Alexandra Hills, Ana Filipa Prata, Brecht de Groote, Christin Grunert, Christopher Bollas, Daniela Di Pasquale, David Vichnar, Edith Beltrán, Gero Guttzeit, Hande Gurses, Harriet Hulme, James Rushing Daniel, João Pedro da Costa, Margarita García Candeira, Marija Sruk, Martijn Boven, and Ortwin de Graef.


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Dépasser les limites de la peur : comprendre la peur pathologique pour mieux la surmonter
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ISBN: 9782356440877 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris : Enrick B. éditions,

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Le psychothérapeute examine une série de phobies pathologiques (peur des animaux, de la prise de décision, de la solitude, panique compulsive, crises d'angoisse, etc.) et des moyens d'y remédier, avec des exemples de cas cliniques à l'appui.


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The psychology of fear in organizations : how to transform anxiety into well-being, productivity and innovation
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ISBN: 0749472545 1322870829 0749472553 9780749472559 9780749472542 Year: 2015 Publisher: London, [England] : Kogan Page,

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In the context of global economic recession, fear has become institutionalized in many organizations, both in the private and public sectors. Board directors are under pressure from shareholders, senior executives are attempting to maintain sales in a nervous market and many people are concerned about job security and maintaining their living standards. This book shows how fear manifests itself in large organizations, how it impacts on the workforce and how by reducing our willingness to take risks and to innovate, it can inhibit economic growth and innovation, at both an individual and corpor

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