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    Fear exists to motivate organisms to avoid danger and protect themselves from harm. Experiments with rats have shown that fear is associated with places or things connected to past negative or painful experiences, rather than physical pain itself. While some fears cannot be rationally explained, they often develop from learning processes like associating heights with falling. Ultimately, feeling fear is a normal part of life and aims to keep people safe from threats.

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    Fear exists to motivate organisms to avoid danger and protect themselves from harm. Experiments with rats have shown that fear is associated with places or things connected to past negative or painful experiences, rather than physical pain itself. While some fears cannot be rationally explained, they often develop from learning processes like associating heights with falling. Ultimately, feeling fear is a normal part of life and aims to keep people safe from threats.

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    Fear exists to motivate organisms to avoid danger and protect themselves from harm. Experiments with rats have shown that fear is associated with places or things connected to past negative or painful experiences, rather than physical pain itself. While some fears cannot be rationally explained, they often develop from learning processes like associating heights with falling. Ultimately, feeling fear is a normal part of life and aims to keep people safe from threats.

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    Fear

    Summary

    To sum up, the purpose of the fear is basically getting rid of the source of it, trying not to be involved in
    dangerous situation anymore.

    As the result of the Miller’s experiment in 1948, where the rats were put into a white section with an
    electric shock in it and then were able to escape to the black one while it was shock-free, it
    showed that there was no a real feel of physical pain, just an association of a white section that
    brings a fear to the rats. So, fear directly connected with the associations. Also, there are “no
    reasons” fears, but it can be explained by learning in particular, as a fear of heights, can exists
    because of the small fall or a minimal approaching to fall.

    People just want to stay safe, but to feel fear is a normal everyday life.

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