As COVID-19 proliferates - Fear pheromones - Hormone triggers

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Hi everyone,
As COVID-19 proliferates many are reaching for the panic button.. even here in New Zealand.. Please don’t.
As I shared on my FB page recently...
It’s hard to see right now, I feel some greater good will come of this...
Perhaps even a deeper more profound global understanding and respect for our place in the 'natural world order'.
This virus is actually 'natural' given our currently accepted trajectory of disconnecting from nature and each other.
As many of us have experienced at RSE, fear can spread through the student community at an alarming rate,
making us more controllable, irrational and more vulnerable, a form of blind adrenaline kicks in
that cannot see the real danger hidden in plain sight.
This brings me to the subject of 'Fear pheromones'.
These are hormones that can trigger parts of our brain that are subconsciously associated with fear.
Fear can spread from group to group, person to person, faster than the corona virus.
There are ways to recognize this and recover your critical thinking to protect yourself, families and communities
to be all the more effective in overcoming irrational fear and ultimately this Covid-19 virus.
Now would be a good time...
Be wise, be courageous, and be kind to one another.

David

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As cases of COVID-19 proliferate, there’s a pandemic of fear unfolding alongside the pandemic of the coronavirus.
March 16, 2020 11.20pm AEDT
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Jacek Debiec
Assistant Professor / Department of Psychiatry; Assistant Research Professor / Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan
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Jacek Debiec has received funding from the NIH, University of Michigan and Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
As cases of COVID-19 proliferate, there’s a pandemic of fear unfolding alongside the pandemic of the coronavirus.
Media announce mass cancellations of public events “over coronavirus fears.” TV stations show images of “coronavirus panic shopping.” Magazines discuss attacks against Asians sparked by “racist coronavirus fears.”
Due to the global reach and instantaneous nature of modern media, fear contagion spreads faster than the dangerous yet invisible virus. Watching or hearing someone else who’s scared causes you to be frightened, too, without necessarily even knowing what caused the other person’s fear.
As a psychiatrist and researcher studying the brain mechanisms of social regulation of emotions, I frequently see in clinical and experimental settings how powerful fear contagion can be.
Responding with fear in face of danger
Fear contagion is an evolutionarily old phenomenon that researchers observe in many animal species. It can serve a valuable survival function.
Imagine a herd of antelopes pasturing in the sunny African savanna. Suddenly, one senses a stalking lion. The antelope momentarily freezes. Then it quickly sets off an alarm call and runs away from the predator. In the blink of an eye, other antelopes follow.
Brains are hardwired to respond to threats in the environment. Sight, smell or sound cues that signal the presence of the predator automatically triggered the first antelope’s survival responses: first immobility, then escape.

The brain’s amygdala coordinates the fear response. janulla/iStock/Getty Images Plus
The amygdala, a structure buried deep within the side of the head in the brain’s temporal lobe, is key for responding to threats. It receives sensory information and quickly detects stimuli associated with danger.
Then the amygdala forwards the signal to other brain areas, including the hypothalamus and brain stem areas, to further coordinate specific defense responses.
These outcomes are commonly known as fright, freeze, flight or fight. We human beings share these automatic, unconscious behaviors with other animal species.
Responding with fear, one step removed
That explains the direct fear the antelope felt when sniffing or spotting a lion nearby. But fear contagion goes one step further.
The antelopes’ run for their lives that followed one frightened group member was also automatic. Their escape, however, was not directly initiated by the lion’s attack but by the behavior of their terrified group member: momentarily freezing, sounding the alarm and running away. The group as a whole picked up on the terror of the individual and acted accordingly.
Like other animals, people are also sensitive to panic or fear expressed by our kin. Human beings are exquisitely tuned to detect other people’s survival reactions.
Experimental studies have identified a brain structure called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as vital for this ability. It surrounds the bundle of fibers that connect the left and right hemisphere of the brain. When you watch another person express fear, your ACC lights up. Studies in animals confirmed that the message about another’s fear travels from the ACC to the amygdala, where the defense responses are set off.
It makes sense why an automatic, unconscious fear contagion would have evolved in social animals. It can help prevent the demise of an entire group bound by kinship, protecting all their shared genes so they can be passed on to future generations.
Indeed, studies show that social transmission of fear is more robust between animals, including humans, that are related or belong to the same group as compared to between strangers.
Nevertheless, fear contagion is an effective way of transmitting defense responses not only between members of the same group or species but also across species. Many animals, through evolution, acquired an ability to recognize alarm calls of other species. For example, bird squawks are known to trigger defense responses in many mammals.
Transmitting fear in 2020
Fear contagion happens automatically and unconsciously, making it hard to really control.
This phenomenon explains mass panic attacks that can occur during music concerts, sports events or other public gatherings. Once fear is triggered in the crowd – maybe someone thought they heard a gunshot – there is no time or opportunity to verify the sources of terror. People must rely on each other, just like antelopes do. The fear travels from one to the next, infecting each individual as it goes. Everyone starts running for their lives. Too often, these mass panics end up with tragedies.

Always-on news and social media can mean an unending stream of contagious fear. seb_ra/iStock/Getty Images Plus
Fear contagion does not require direct physical contact with others. Media distributing terrifying images and information can very effectively spread fear.
Moreover, while antelopes on the savanna stop running once they’re a safe distance from a predator, scary images on the news can keep you fearful. The feeling of immediate danger never subsides. Fear contagion didn’t evolve under the always-on conditions of Facebook, Twitter and 24-hour news.
Tempering fear others transmit to you
There’s no way to prevent fear contagion from kicking into gear – it’s automatic and unconscious, after all – but you can do something to mitigate it. Since it’s a social phenomenon, many rules that govern social behaviors apply.
In addition to information about fear, information about safety can be socially transferred too. Studies have found that being in the presence of a calm and confident person may help overcome fear acquired through observation of others. For instance, a child terrified by a strange animal will calm down if a calm adult is present. This kind of safety modeling is especially effective when you have your eyes on someone close to you, or someone you depend on, such as a caretaker or an authority figure.
Also, actions matter more than words, and words and actions must match. For example, explaining to people that there’s no need for a healthy person to wear a protective face mask and at the same time showing images of presumably healthy COVID-19 screening personnel wearing hazmat suits is counterproductive. People will go and buy face masks because they see authority figures wearing them when confronting invisible danger.
But words do still matter. Information about danger and safety must be provided clearly with straightforward instructions on what to do. When you are under significant stress, it is harder to process details and nuances. Withholding important facts or lying increases uncertainty, and uncertainty augments fears and anxiety.
Evolution hardwired human beings to share threats and fears with others. But it also equipped us with the ability to cope with these threats together.
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Yes, you can smell fear — and it's contagious
Pheromones communicate emotion, but these are no ordinary smells.

Angela Nelson
October 9, 2017, 11:54 a.m.

Fear itself may not have a scent, but the chemicals a scared animal produces do have a specific smell. (Photo: Anetlanda/Shutterstock)
Haunted houses, scary movies and spooky sights abound this time of year. Fear is in the air. Can you smell it? While that may sound like a ridiculous prospect, it's not. Science says so.
You may have heard that some animals, such as bees and dogs, can smell fear. That statement is somewhat true and somewhat misleading, according to Penn State University. Fear itself does not have a scent, but the pheromones produced when an animal is afraid do.
Pheromones are chemicals emitted by all animals in bodily fluids, such as sweat and urine, that send signals to other animals of the same species. They may indicate territory, aggression or an interest in reproduction. But we don't smell these scents in the same way we would smell a fresh-baked apple pie or a fire burning in the fireplace. We detect those through our main olfactory system, but pheromones are registered through our accessory olfactory systems. PSU explains:
Communication in this system begins in the vomeronasal organ, which is located above the soft palate of the mouth, on the floor of the nasal cavity. Highly specific smell molecules detected by this organ are transmitted to the accessory olfactory bulb where they are collected and processed. Nerves from both the accessory and the main olfactory bulbs project to the limbic system, the part of the brain that deals with emotional perception and response.
PSU also points out that smells are processed and interpreted in the limbic system, and there, an organ called the amygdala is responsible for perceiving and responding to fear. So it makes sense that an animal would be able to "smell fear."
While some scientists question whether human pheromones really exist, others point to studies like this one from 2012, which found that humans can indeed communicate emotional states via chemical signals.
Fear as a social contagion
When we're afraid, our fear chemicals go airborne, possibly making those around us feel frightened as well. (Photo: Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock)
Not only can we communicate fear, but the feeling of fear is contagious, a study published in 2009 found. To determine this, a team of researchers taped absorbent pads in the armpits of 20 people about to skydive for the first time. As they perspired, the pads soaked up the sweat before and during the jump. As a comparison, the scientists also collected sweat samples from the same 20 people (11 men and nine women) while they ran on a treadmill.
The team then asked two groups of volunteers to sniff the sweat (file that under jobs I'd never want). One group got the fear sweat, and the other the treadmill sweat. As the volunteers did their dirty work, a brain scanner monitored their response. It showed the fear centers of the brain were activated when volunteers sniffed the skydive sweat even though the volunteers said they couldn't tell the difference between the samples.
In a conference presentation, study author Lilianne Mujica-Parodi wrote: "We demonstrate here the first direct evidence for a human alarm pheromone ... our findings indicate that there may be a hidden biological component to human social dynamics, in which emotional stress is, quite literally, 'contagious.'"
In another study, psychologist Denise Chen asked a group of volunteers to smell sweat from study participants who had watched a funny movie clip or a scary one. More than half of them correctly identified which sample was fear sweat even though they said they could not smell any difference. The study demonstrates "an immediate effect of airborne chemicals on human moods," according to the authors.
But don't let all this create the impression that humans are super-sniffers like dogs, elephants or rats. The authors of the 2009 study noted that behavior is another important factor in the emotion-contagion equation. In other words, people pick up on and imitate social behaviors, so if you see someone who is clearly frightened, you may become frightened as an instinctual reaction, not necessarily a chemical one.

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