A tall man in a long black coat is seen walking past the window of an elementary school with a large briefcase. This sentence is enough to make almost any American's skin crawl for a moment. Change the word man to woman and all those unpleasant feelings will become normal and nothing out of the ordinary. How can this be? We have all experienced that unpleasant feeling of fear creeping into our body at least once in our lives. Maybe he was watching a horror movie or walking at night in an unfamiliar part of the city, but this sensation is unlike any other sensation that humans can produce. It can become the most important survival instinct a person can rely on. Although, in our time, as Dr. Karl Albrecht states, "fear seems to have had a bad reputation among most human beings." Fear is certainly not the most popular feeling and emotion that manifests itself in humans. People today see fear as a nuisance and tend to be considered a quality of the weak and defenseless. With education in the awareness that fear is essential, people would discover that fear can quickly become any human being's most valuable asset. An analysis of fear, and recognition of its importance, confirms why fear is still necessary in humans to survive today. To the uneducated eye, fear may seem uncontrollable and is usually explained by seeing, hearing, or feeling something "scary" or "creepy." ”. It is actually a very complicated biological process that starts a chain reaction throughout the body. The brain initiates a cascade of multiple events that allows the release of chemicals to initiate the fight-or-flight response (Layton). The brain is very complex and constantly transmits information into the subconscious, so fear is...... middle of paper ......Association for Psychological Sciences RSS. Association for Psychological Science, September 3, 2013. Web. February 21, 2014. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/fear-of-holes-may-ste m-from-evolutionary-survival -response.html Stone, Mark H. "Alfred Adler on the Dynamics of Fear." Journal of Individual Psychology 69.1 (2013): 55-65. Premier of academic research. Network. 21 February 2014. http://web.b.ebscohost.com.cccneb.idm.oclc.org/ehost/d 2ZQ % 3d%3d#db=aph&AN=89171190 Yong, ed. "Scared to death." New Scientist 218.2919 (2013): 36-39. Premier of academic research. Network. 21 February 2014. http://web.a.ebscohost.com.cccneb.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail?sid=634015a8-e076-4c86-a402-4afd32996a25%40sessionmgr4005&vid=1&hid=4114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3Qt bGl 2ZQ %3d %3d#db=aph&AN=87878284