Fear : across the disciplines / edited by Jan Plamper and Benjamin Lazier.

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012], ©2012.

viii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Fear, anxiety, and their disorders / Richard J. McNally -- The biology of fear : evolutionary, neural, and psychological perspectives / Arne Öhman -- How did fear become a scientific object and what kind of object is it? / Ruth Leys -- Soldiers and emotion in early twentieth-century Russian military psychology / Jan Plamper -- Fear of a safe place / Jan Mieszkowski -- The language of fear : security and modern politics / Corey Robin -- The New York stock market crash of 1929 / Harold James -- Living dead : fearful attractions of film / Adam Lowenstein.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-227) and index.