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 - As long as we assume that emotions are instinctual reactions of a person to external events (even if triggered by cognitive judgment) that prompt action, the only available analysis of emotion relies on an outmoded faculty psychology. This has the troubling effect of divorcing logic and affect in action
 ## Fear
 - Emotions can be viewed through the lens of a cognitive device that can help create and form habits.
+### Fear as an evolutionary tool
 - As Dewey helps us to understand, *it is not that fear as emotion causes us to move away from persons perceived as somehow dangerous; rather, affect becomes ‘‘fear’’ by the interpreted action of separation.*
 - Therefore, neurologically, *fear stems from habit*, not the other way around
 - Affect arises unbidden in a reaction to a problematic circumstance in which habits of adjustment are inadequate
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 - This emotional response doesn't necessarily need to be fear, leading to separation
 - This emotional response can be redirected into a search for understanding, creating a productive output (Dewey)
 - The author disagrees with the above sentiment, arguing that fear and anger can be intelligent, productive, emotions.
+### Fear as a Sociocultural Practice
 - According to Ahmed, objects and rhetoric can become "sticky, or saturated with emotion"
 - The author then uses this to reinforce the idea that by propagating "past feelings" forward by proactively acting against them, we continue to let these ideas hold meaning, and power.
 	- The author refers to this propagation of fear as "habituated fear"