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28-500: (Redirected from Concerns ) [REDACTED] Look up concern in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Concern may refer to: Constructs [ edit ] Worry , an emotion Concern (computer science) , an abstract concept about program behavior Enterprises and organizations [ edit ] Concern (business) , a German type of group company Concern (organisation) ,

56-448: A rhetorical device or figure of speech , used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression. Amplifying achievements, obstacles and problems to seek attention is an everyday occurrence Inflating the difficulty of achieving a goal after attaining it, can be used to bolster self-esteem . In the arts, exaggerations are used to create emphasis or effect. As a literary device , exaggerations are often used in poetry , and

84-403: A certain level of restraint when using exaggeration. If a scene contains several elements, there should be a balance in how those elements are exaggerated in relation to each other, to avoid confusing or overawing the viewer. A shock jock , a type of radio broadcaster or disc jockey , entertains listeners or attracts attention using humor or melodramatic exaggeration that some portion of

112-405: A particular style, like a caricature or the style of a specific artist. The classical definition of exaggeration, employed by Disney , was to remain true to reality, just presenting it in a wilder, more extreme form. Other forms of exaggeration can involve the supernatural or surreal, alterations in the physical features of a character; or elements in the storyline itself. It is important to employ

140-537: A student society at the Indian Institute of Science, India CONCERN Program, a Con Edison program that offers eligible customers a specially trained representative and advice about government aid programs, safety tips, and ways to save money on one's energy bill Concern Worldwide , an Irish charity Other uses [ edit ] Concern (horse) , an American Thoroughbred racehorse See also [ edit ] Care (disambiguation) Concerned ,

168-551: A webcomic parodying the video game Half-Life 2 [REDACTED] Travel concerns travel guide from Wikivoyage Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Concern . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Concern&oldid=1108280802 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

196-669: Is a natural response to anticipated future problems. Excessive worry is a primary diagnostic feature of generalized anxiety disorder , but also is pervasive in other psychological disorders, like schizophrenia . Most people experience short-lived periods of worry in their lives without incident; indeed, a mild amount of worrying has positive effects, if it prompts people to take precautions (e.g., fastening their seat belt or buying insurance) or avoid risky behaviors (e.g., angering dangerous animals, or binge drinking ), but with excessive worrisome people they overestimate future dangers in their assessments and in its extremities tend to magnify

224-402: Is a type of portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness: Filippo Baldinucci describes this as "disproportionately increasing and emphasizing the defects of the features". In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others. Slapstick

252-416: Is also associated with increased anxiety and other psychopathology symptoms. This model explains pathological worry to be an interaction between involuntary (bottom-up) processes, such as habitual biases in attention and interpretation favoring threat content, and voluntary (top-down) processes, such as attentional control . Emotional processing biases influence the probability of threat representations into

280-458: Is caused by desires and can be overcome through detachment: The worry system is activated from exposure to a potential triggering event, traumatic experience or vulnerability, this brings worrisome thoughts and feelings which bring about physical stress reactions and response to avoid worrisome behavior, to ensure allostasis . But under the crisis this activity feeds back into the first worrisome thoughts and feelings which generates and strengthens

308-400: Is commonly used in comical situations or to stress the evil characteristics of a villain . Since the perception of acting quality differs between people the extent of overacting can be subjective. Exaggeration is an effect especially useful for animation , as perfect imitation of reality can look static and dull in cartoons. The level of exaggeration depends on whether one seeks realism or

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336-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Worry Worry is a category of perseverative cognition , i.e. a continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future. As an emotion "worry" is experienced from anxiety or concern about a real or imagined issue, often personal issues such as health or finances, or external broader issues such as environmental pollution, social structure or technological change. It

364-483: Is frequently encountered in casual speech. Many times the usages of hyperbole describes something as better or worse than it really is. An example of hyperbole is: "The bag weighed a ton." Hyperbole makes the point that the bag was very heavy, though it probably does not weigh a ton. Exaggerating is also a type of deception , as well as a means of malingering – magnifying small injuries or discomforts as an excuse to avoid responsibilities . The word has origins in

392-412: Is the recourse to humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of common sense. These exaggerated depictions are often found in cartoons, and light film comedies aimed at younger audiences. Overacting is the exaggeration of gestures and speech when acting . It may be unintentional, particularly in the case of a bad actor , or be required for the role. For the latter, it

420-779: The Gospel of Matthew encourages: The Greek word used for worry in Matthew is merimnaō, which means to be anxious about, or to be troubled with cares. St. Paul writes to the Philippian church, "There is no need to worry" and in the pastoral epistles , 2 Timothy 1:7 emboldens: Similarly James 1:2-4 motivates to face trials of any kind with joy, because they produce endurance (strength and courage). Further Saint Peter reveals his understanding of healthy living in Second Peter 1:3,5–7: A late Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba stated that worry

448-405: The awareness as intruding negative or positive thoughts. At a pre-conscious level, these processes influence the competition among mental representations in which some correspond to the assertive power of worry with impaired cognitive process and others to the preventive power of worry with attentional control or exhaustive vigilance. The biases determine threatening degree and nature of worry content

476-551: The creator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy , was inspired by the Stoics’ therapeutic ideas. The biblical word used in Hebrew for worry ( Hebrew : דָּאַג , daag ) regards worry as a combined form of fear and sorrow which affects nephesh , the totality of our being. The bible takes a fortitude-strengthening approach regarding worrying e.g. Psalm 94 : In the New Testament ,

504-473: The emotional processing of fear that is theoretically necessary for successful habituation and extinction of feared stimuli. Worry is reinforced as a coping technique due to the fact that most worries never actually occur, leaving the worrier with a feeling of having successfully controlled the feared situation, without the unpleasant sensations associated with exposure. Noteworthy, studies also show that visual worry, i.e. worrying that occurs in visual modality,

532-572: The exaggerations of propaganda can bolster an incumbent's position. People with the following mental health issues are prone to make exaggerated representations: Factitious disorder is when a person acts as if they have a physical or psychological illness. People with this disorder created the symptoms and are willing to undergo painful or risky tests to get sympathy and special attention. In 1969, The Monty Python Dirty Fork sketch demonstrates an absurd level of catastrophization where restaurant staff commit suicide and murder each other because of

560-579: The expression of feeling and attitude by exaggeration". Harold Osborne writes that in its wake, even the "new and hard realism ...kept much of the distortion and exaggeration which had been one of the chief devices of earlier Expressionism". Although primarily a comic figure, the boastful alazon may be one aspect of the tragic hero as well: the touch of miles gloriosus ("braggart soldier") in Tamburlaine , even in Othello , has been commented upon, as has

588-410: The listening audience may find offensive. Schopenhauer saw exaggeration as essential to journalism . He may have overstated this case, but yellow journalism thrived on exaggeration, and fact-checking and independent verification have not succeeded in suppressing clickbait or hyperbolic headlines . Politicians can exaggerate. In the electoral process one may expect exaggeration. Outside,

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616-508: The mid-16th century: from Latin exaggerat- 'heaped up', from the verb exaggerare, from ex- 'thoroughly' + aggerare 'heap up' (from agger 'heap'). The word originally meant 'pile up, accumulate', later 'intensify praise or blame', giving rise to current senses. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle 's discussion of the alazon . Harold Bloom describes expressionist art as attempting to "intensify

644-492: The outcome of problem-solving efforts. Seriously anxious people find it difficult to control their worry and typically experience symptoms like restlessness, fatigue, difficulty in concentrating, irritability, muscle tension and sleep disturbance. The avoidance model of worry (AMW) theorizes that worry is a verbal linguistic, thought based activity, which arises as an attempt to inhibit vivid mental imagery and associated somatic and emotional activation. This inhibition precludes

672-410: The situation as a dead end which results in stress. Overestimation happens because analytic resources are a combination of external locus of control , personal experience and belief fallacies. Chronically worried individuals are also more likely to lack confidence in their problem solving ability, perceive problems as threats, become easily frustrated when dealing with a problem, and are pessimistic about

700-477: The touch of the obsessed philosopher in Faustus and Hamlet '. Emil Draitser writes that "Some theoreticians of the comic consider exaggeration to be a universal comic device." It may take different forms in different genres, but in the words of M. Eastman and W. Fry, all rely on the fact that 'the easiest way to make things laughable is to exaggerate to the point of absurdity their salient traits'. A caricature

728-513: The vicious worry cycle. Relaxation, risk assessment, worry exposure, exercises such as yoga, and behavior prevention may be effective in curbing excessive worry, a chief feature of generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive behavioral techniques hasn't branched out enough to address the problem holistically but therapy can control or diminish worry. Exaggeration Exaggeration is the representation of something as more extreme or dramatic than it is, intentionally or unintentionally. It can be

756-420: The worrier attempts to resolve the perceived threat and the redirection of anticipations, responses and coping in such situations. There are some who respond to mental representations in an uncertain or ambiguous state in regard to the stressful or upsetting event. In this state the worrier is held in a perpetual state of worry. This is because availability of an overwhelming number (maybe 2 or 3, depending upon

784-498: The worry-prone individual) of possibilities of outcomes which can be generated, it puts the worrier in a threatening crisis and they focus their attentional control voluntarily on the potential negative outcomes, whereas others engage in a constructive problem solving manner and in a benign approach rather than to engage with heightened anticipation on the possible negative outcome. Greek thinkers such as stoic philosopher Epictetus and Seneca advised against worry. Albert Ellis ,

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