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fear is the physiological response of
increased heart rate sweating increased
breathing activated muscles it's deep in
the middle of our brain if you don't
have an amygdala you won't be afraid of
anything sometimes people call the
amygdala the lizard brain it's a
primitive mini brain within our brain
even crocodiles that have scarcely
changed for 70 million years have an
amygdala if a Predator is gonna eat me I
need to run the other direction without
thinking about it for a really long time
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first you're going to see the eyes the
retina neurons activating those are
going to send projections to the middle
part of the brain those then split and
you'll get some projections going
directly to the amygdala so within one
synapse the amygdala is starting to get
information your body has adrenaline
flowing your amygdala is activated but
there's not actually a threat we'll give
some projections to going to the visual
cortex that starts the cascade of
conscious awareness regions like the
prefrontal cortex have the ability for
higher cognitive functions like oh I
recognize this it's not a real monster
it looks like a person dressed up as a
monster and therefore I'm gonna suppress
activity in the amygdala and that leads
to both a sense of relief maybe a sense
of humor
so you reinterpret this emotional state
as positive because it's the only other
thing it can be doesn't predict anything
positive or negative consequences then
the amygdala stops responding to it so
the first time the monster jumps out oh
my god the screen the startle the heart
rate etc the next time maybe similarly
but maybe the third or fourth time if
the monster is the same the place is the
same okay I'm over this
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if you would want changes in sensory
cues that are really big so from dark to
light they do little things that really
activate the sensory differences so that
you don't pitch ''u 8 - the same monster
popping up over and over you would want
to bury the sitting on some that are
visual some that are auditory you feel a
little chilly mist I think in the idea
haunted house you would have things that
would also play into people's most
specific unique fears
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