Closer Threats Inspire a More Primitive Kind of Fear

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 08:40 in Psychology & Sociology

Your brain handles a perceived threat differently depending on how close it is to you. If it’s far away, you engage more problem-solving areas of the brain. But up close, your animal instincts jump into action and there isn’t as much reasoning, like when the guy at the haunted house jumps up right next to […]

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