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BDetails Writer: Daniel Gardner; Genres: Nonfiction, Science and Technology; Publisher: Dutton Adult
FEAR FACTOR Daniel Gardner explores how our modern age tests our biological responses to danger in The Science of Fear
Why do we fear dying in a terrorist-hijacked plane more than a car accident, when the odds of the former are tiny? As Daniel Gardner writes in The Science of Fear, it's the inevitable result when human brains hard-wired by evolution try to adjust to the modern age, with its barrage of media-hyped scares. His observations aren't new and are sometimes repetitive, but such minor flaws are nothing to fear. B
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