why people are more frightened

In his book Risk: the Science and Politics of Fear, Dan Gardner outlined 18 irrational fears that most people have. Among them are catastrophic potential (massive fatalities in a single event, rather than small numbers over time, which is why people are more frightened of airplane crashes than the more dangerous public highways); unfamiliarity (why you are more scared walking down an unknown street in the dark than walking in your own neighborhood at night); lack of understanding (if you know how something works, it is not as scary to you as when you do not); loss of trust (if you do not have confidence in an institution to do what it should, your sense of risk rises); and danger to children (anything that threatens children or future generations evokes a stronger emotional reaction). สล็อต เว็บตรง