threat perception

collocation in English

meaningsofthreatandperception

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threat
noun[C]
uk
/θret/
us
/θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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perception
noun
uk
/pəˈsep.ʃən/
us
/pɚ-/
a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how ...
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(Definition ofthreatandperceptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Instead, we designed two summary items to measurethreatperception.
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This pattern makes their militarized confrontations less intense in terms ofthreatperception.
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The key claim is that each practice increasesthreatperceptionand therefore the probability of war.
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It is the consequence of thethreatperceptionthat explains its alleged function.
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In this theory, externalthreatperceptionranges from significantly overestimated to significantly underestimated.
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Thus, to dream aboutthreatperceptionand threat-avoidance behaviors is to realistically rehearse these functions in a safe environment.
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Results also suggest that the propensity to discriminate varies as a function of ideology andthreatperception.
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Recurring, realistic threat simulations led to improvedthreatperceptionand avoidance skills and therefore increased the probability of successful reproduction.
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They suggest that there was no need for trainingthreatperceptionand avoidance in the ancestral environment.
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Consequently, we expect thatthreatperceptionwill exert stronger influence on discriminatory intolerance than on generic intolerance.
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Recurring, realistic threat simulations led to improvedthreatperceptionand avoidance skills and therefore increased the probability of successful reproduction of any given individual.
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However, it is clear thatthreatperceptionand avoidance are much more complex skills than what is involved in classical conditioning.
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We will certainly need many imaginative ideas like this before the issue about threat simulations and improvedthreatperceptionand avoidance skills can be settled.
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This in turn can lead to a full-blown arms race, which in turn increasesthreatperceptionand hostility on each side.
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Next, we need to show that these events constitute realistic rehearsals ofthreatperceptionand avoidance, for otherwise they would not be useful simulations.
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Of the nine independent variables, it is forthreatperceptionthat we have the clearest basis to hypothesize differing effects for generic and discriminatory intolerance.
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The hypothesis as applied to humans specifically is that dreaming rehearsesthreatperceptionand threat avoidance, particularly significant types of human ancestral survival skills. 16.
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It must be added that the strategic concepts on both sides existed in a context of fluctuatingthreatperception, which was not symmetrical.
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The theory adopted here deals with that issues by hypothesizing that the group may or may not feel invulnerable depending onthreatperception.
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My essential divergence is with his idea that the dream has the specific function of simulating threatening events, and of rehearsingthreatperceptionand threat avoidance.
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The instability created by this disregard for legal decisions in turn tends to justify the unelected head'sthreatperceptionand to justify the continuation of its guardian role.
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However, the notion that dream consciousness is a unique state providing a mechanism for simulatingthreatperceptionand threat avoidance responses currently has inadequate empirical support.
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