The Science of Fear
Why we fear the wrong things, and how our instincts about risk lead us astray.
Daniel Gardner, a Canadian journalist, explains why people in the safest societies in history worry so much about the wrong things. Drawing on the psychology of risk, including the work of Paul Slovic, he shows how our gut feelings misjudge danger, and how politicians, companies and the media play on those errors.
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Morgan Housel
The Science of Fear is the first book that opened my eyes to how poor we are at interpreting risk.
Article · May 2017
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