All of the threats called into area schools Wednesday morning are known as "swatting calls.”That means the calls are hoax calls placed to 911 to falsely report an emergency, such as an armed intruder or active shooter.While the calls are deemed false, they still take up a lot of resources and create panic according to local experts.“Our kids in schools today have been growing up with school shootings,” school psychologist Dr. Tammy Hughes said.Hughes is a licensed psychologist and professor at Duquesne University. She for students, the fear of being the target of an active shooter is a daily reality for students.Thankfully, threats made against schools across the state Wednesday were determined to be a hoax. Despite that, Hughes said people are likely left with anger.“After you are thankful, you start having feelings about worries, kind of about the boy who cried wolf, people aren’t going to take these things seriously anymore, and anger about use of resources, putting children through stress, putting the adults in the systems through stress,” Hughes said.State police said the threats appeared to be computer-generated “swatting calls.”“It’s a form of cyber terrorism that uses computers to distribute the threat, and so computers can distribute threats very quickly, and can do them in ways that sometimes it’s hard to tell where the threats coming from,” director of Duquesne’s Center for Emerging and Innovative Media, Don Maue, said.Maue said these types of threats could be put out by the thousands using artificial intelligence or from a person or people behind a screen, intentionally sending threats to schools.“A computer can make a phone call and make it sound real, so it could sound like a person actually calling you. A computer can send an email. A computer can put a post on social media,” Maue said.Hughes said while they’re likely relieved the threats were false, trauma still exists.“Your body is responding in a way as if something was happening, so to say that it’s not happening, your body doesn’t just go, ‘oh, sorry, fine,’” Hughes said.Her advice is to talk to your kids and validate their fears, but also check on yourself and others not directly connected to the situation.“Everybody necessarily understands the kids in the building, but those things spread out like when you drop a rock in a pond. There’s a lot of reverberation when you feel connected to a community,” Hughes said.The FBI stressed how seriously they take “swatting calls” in a statement to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4, saying the calls put innocent people at risk. They ask that the public remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to local law enforcement.