Fear and anger For many years, people have always exhibited different behaviors and reactions whenever they are faced by an issue that needs their immediate response. In the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, an article by Lerner & Keltner (2001), they did a research that looked at how people respond when they are angry and when they are fearful. From the finding in this article, there exists big disparity on how people behave when subjected under the two mentioned scenarios. In the first instance, the way people behave when they have fear, in relation to taking risks was analyzed. The respondents were given questionnaire to fill with their baseline response being established prior to the analysis. It was found out that, people who had high levels of fears had responded by exhibiting behaviour that was aversive to indulging in risky activities by avoiding taking risks