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Sex Differences in Time Course of Fear Response

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Sex Differences in Fear Response

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Women may differ from men in the time course of their fear experience. Acquired and conditioned fears may persist for longer and each fear experience may extend for a longer duration. This creates a higher baseline of fear onto which situational fear cues may ‘add’ or ‘stack’. These possibilities will be examined by reviewing sex differences in the areas of fear conditioning, sustained and phasic fear, potentiated (induced) fear, and more extended processing time for fear-inducing stimuli/events. If our hypothesis is correct, we would expect to find evidence of greater persistence of the experience of fear in women compared to men.

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Campbell, A., Copping, L.T., Cross, C.P. (2021). Sex Differences in Time Course of Fear Response. In: Sex Differences in Fear Response. SpringerBriefs in Anthropology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65280-7_5

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