While we're discussing our lives and differing views and opinions, we observe an action, behavior, or comment that causes us to perceive a threat.

The demands made on us often trigger the stress response: our brains perceive a threat and the nervous system readies the body for action, for 'fightor flight'.

Grey reef sharks often do so if they are followed or cornered by divers to indicate they perceive a threat.

Boa constrictors will strike when they perceive a threat.

Local farmers are furious, perceiving a threat to livestock.

Moreover, cognitive distortions are thoughts that cause individuals to perceive reality negatively.

He attempts to show readers how to perceive reality outside their own experience and embrace such paradoxical questions by rejecting the premisea strategy also called unasking.

He engaged people where they worked and in the ways they perceived reality.

This broad shift in the social arena, in turn, changes the way the individual perceives reality.

Both have hitched their wagons to nationalism in whose name they are ready to trample on western values wherever they perceive weakness.

Woven into the fabric of cricket, and sport in general, was a macho thread that did not allow for such a perceived weakness.

Blinded by that one perceived weakness, they failed to notice all the wonderful things that he can do.

This forced him to address the perceived weakness of his climbing, an inability to react to surges late in mountain stages.

City analysts suggest the multi-unit structure exacerbates the impact of perceived weakness in some of the company's markets.

There's no real control over how the media or the public perceives you.

So a term that the book-buying public perceives as a badge of quality, actually relates to the number of books that leave the publisher's warehouse en route to the bookstore.

Additionally, the general public perceives environmentally friendly construction in affordable housing to have significantly higher up-front costs and little return on investment.

In so doing, the roof becomes the frame through which the viewer perceives both the city and its occupants.

With multiple observed points of light traversing the atmosphere, their light's deviations average out and the viewer perceives less variation in light coming from them.

The number of opinions, images, and attitudes that viewers tend to form when watching television will have a direct influence on how the viewer perceives the real world.