HUMR 2401 Final: HUMR 2401 Final Notes
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Victims of fear: the social psychology of repression . Fear is widespread and deeply felt among the poor in latin america. Rise of military dictatorships created fear in other social groups. The direct victims of repression have suffered personally, as have their families, from the traumatic aftereffects of violent experiences such as torture, disappearances, the execution of relatives, arbitrary arrest, intimidation, unemployment, and exile. We understand fear to be a subjective experience whose effects are initially on the individual but which, when occurring simultaneously in thousands of people within a society, can have unforeseeable repercussions for social and political behaviour. Physical threat death, attacked, raped, beaten, tortured. Threat to one"s livelihood the loss of means of subsistence or to an inability to earn enough to fulfill basic needs. Fear can become permanent when the circumstances are perceived as life- threatening.