Missing Emotion

I've read this sentiment from other players and would have to say I agree

That's odd isn't it? As fear is one of the most powerful emotion.

I haven't noticed that until now and it does seem weird that they'd allow the pets to fear, but not the sims.

My Sims get a moodlet expressing their 'fear' of thunderstorms, but they don't cower or in any manner show said fear.

Never thought about it but now that you mention it , it's rather odd not to have fear included. Fear of dogs , fear of cats, would be things the sims could get over with in time. Maybe it's yet to be added.

Omg, this has been my biggest complaint for a few years now. It's so weird, isn't it? How did Fear get left out of a Sims game that focuses mainly on emotions?

I've been requesting a lot for the devs to put the time in to add Fear, but they did say once that it would be a huge undertaking to add it. Not impossible, mind you, but a lot of time and work. In the end though, I really think it would be worth it. Things just aren't right without proper fear. I'm also hoping that they expand on it and do an entire phobia system so we can choose specific things that our Sims are afraid of, like spiders, bees, thunder, vampires/ghosts/aliens, failure, children turning out bad, etc. I think if something like that were put into place, it would really fill in the gap and make the Sims more realistic and engaging as well.

It's something that I've noticed every since Pixar's Inside Out. I don't know if it can be added to Sims 4 but if the emotion system carries on to Sims 5 (whenever that's going to happen), I hope fear will be added.

I want fear

They have so many emotional states - Happy, Sad, Angry, Flirty, Focused, Embarrassed, Tense, Playful, etc. - almost everything you could think of... except Afraid. It's such an important emotion, one essential to the survival of any species, it really ought to be fully represented, not just superficially simulated.

Hear hear, give us fear.