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(2014) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4).
"Passive fear" denotes a certain type of response to a perceived threat; what is distinctive about the state of passive fear is that its behavioral outlook appears to qualify the emotional experience. I distinguish between two cases of passive fear: one is that of freezing in fear; the other is that of fear-involved tonic immobility. I reconstruct the explanatory strategy that is commonly employed in the field of emotion science, and argue that it leaves certain questions about the nature of passive fear unanswered. I subsequently propose an account of passive fear that builds upon a phenomenological theory of emotions, placing emphasis on the interpretation of current research into human tonic immobility.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11097-014-9353-3
Full citation:
Hatzimoysis, A. (2014). Passive fear. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4), pp. 613-623.
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