The Science Of Fear by Daniel Gardner
This book examines why people often fear the wrong things by exploring how cognitive biases, emotional reasoning, sensational media, and political incentives distort risk perception; it combines psychological research and real-world examples to show how the availability heuristic, confirmation bias, and statistical illiteracy inflate improbable threats while downplaying common hazards, and argues for clearer thinking, better use of data, and institutional checks to reduce panic-driven decisions and improve public policy.
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