Fear boosts performance, but panic causes paralysis.
The same individual may have different responses on different occasions. Individuals differ in their fear and thrill responses. Results from different methods are congruent, but different approaches yield different insights. I present data from: >4000 person-days of participant observation interviews with 40 expert practitioners retrospective autoethnography of 50 critical incidents over 4 decades and experimental autoethnography of 60 events. I use eight high-risk, high-skill, real-life outdoor adventure recreation activities to provide the test circumstances. Here I compare four qualitative methodological approaches to test if, and how, thrill depends on fear. People can speak, and this provides opportunities to analyze human emotions using perceived experiences communicated via language, as well as through measurement and imaging techniques that are also applicable to other higher animal species.
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