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Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
Dutton Adult
July 2008
On Sale: July 17, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0525950621
EAN: 9780525950622
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From terror attacks to the war on terror, real estate
bubbles to the price of oil, sexual predators to poisoned
food from China, our list of fears is ever-growing. And yet,
we are the safest and healthiest humans in history.
Irrational fear seems to be taking over, often with tragic
results. For example, in the months after 9/11, when people
decided to drive instead of fly--believing they were avoiding
risk--road deaths rose by more than 1,500.
In this
fascinating, lucid, and thoroughly entertaining examination
of how humans process risk, journalist Dan Gardner had the
exclusive cooperation of Paul Slovic, the world renowned
risk-science pioneer, as he reveals how our hunter gatherer
brains struggle to make sense of a world utterly unlike the
one that made them. Filled with illuminating real world
examples, interviews with experts, and fast-paced, lean
storytelling, The Science of Fear shows why it is
truer than ever that the worst thing we have to fear is fear
itself.
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