{"id":397,"date":"2026-04-23T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/?p=397"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:29:58","slug":"feeling-no-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/23\/feeling-no-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling No Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us5.campaign-archive.com\/?e=7be7356e66&amp;u=6557fc90400ccd10e100a13f4&amp;id=6b3cc921be\">Here<\/a> is a link to an article describing a rare disorder that prevents people from feeling fear via the amygdala, but shows that there is a deeper source of fear reactions that can be created by inhaling carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to an article describing a rare disorder that prevents people from feeling fear via the amygdala, but shows that there is a deeper source of fear reactions that can be created by inhaling carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biopsych"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcjttF-6p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":339,"url":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/31\/excitation-transfer-in-rage-rooms\/","url_meta":{"origin":397,"position":0},"title":"Excitation Transfer in &#8220;Rage Rooms&#8221;","author":"dbernstein","date":"January 31, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Research on excitation transfer suggests, for example, that people who have been aroused by physical exercise become angrier when provoked and experience more intense sexual feelings around an attractive person than do people who have been less physically active. 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