People can experience threats {threat} of bodily harm and react to that experience with heightened awareness and aggression. War and crime use threats.
properties: threshold
The consciousness threshold for threatening words or pictures can be significantly higher or lower than that for neutral ones.
causes: dominance hierarchy
Dominance hierarchy causes hostility to strangers, maintains peace in society, decreases new behaviors, and causes threats from younger males toward older males.
effects: aggression
Threat can cause aggression. Frustrations and threats can cause wishes for harm or actual harm to others.
effects: response
In response to threat, people can fight or flee.
biology: escape
Voluntary escape behaviors use small efferent fibers in spinal cord with long latencies and variable responses, which react to visual, tactile, and vibratory threats.
biology: sympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system nerves contribute to threat and aggression behaviors.
factors: games
Games involve threats to plans and goals [Chernoff and Moses, 1959].
factors: negotiations
Negotiations often involve coercive threats.
factors: posture
Threat postures can elaborate into symbols.
factors: schizophrenia
Schizophrenics can hear voices threatening to kill them.
factors: symbol
Raised fist or skull and dagger is for threat.
theories: dreaming
Perhaps, dreams are rehearsals or practice against threats {threat simulation theory, dreaming}.
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