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Fear Factors is a book about man's inhumanity to man. It's about the evil man does. Basically, its how some humans create hell for others! How far are you willing to push the envelope to get what you really, really want at the expense of another person?
How the brains of psychopaths and heroes show that humans are wired to be good At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in exchange for gifts. She used the tools she had available to get what she wanted, like all children. But unlike other children, she didn't care about the damage she inflicted. A few miles away, Lenny Skutnik cared so much about others that he jumped into an ice-cold river to save a drowning woman. What is responsible for the extremes of generosity and cruelty humans are capable of? By putting psychopathic children and extreme altruists in an fMRI, acclaimed psychologist Abigail Marsh found that the answer lies in how our brain responds to others' fear. While the brain's amygdala makes most of us hardwired for good, its variations can explain heroic and psychopathic behavior. A path-breaking read, The Fear Factor is essential for anyone seeking to understand the heights and depths of human nature. "A riveting ride through your own brain."--Adam Grant "You won't be able to put it down."--Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness "[It] reads like a thriller... One of the most mind-opening books I have read in years." --Matthieu Ricard, Author of Altruism
Fear has become a way of life in todays world. We are under a constant barrage of threatening news and the dread of sickness, violence, hate, and social instability. The Fear Factor shows how fear develops, exposes its roots, and provides biblically based solutions to our deepest anxieties. Using 1 John 4:18, the author admonishes readers to allow perfect love to cast out fear in our lives. Readers will learn to identify causes of fear in their lives, including: Fear of Failure Fear of Death Fear of Change Fear of Man
Revealing a neurophysiological connection between fear and many social and emotional problems, this resource unlocks the true sources and reasons for violence, hate, racism, substance abuse, intolerance, and other societal ills.
A fascinating discussion of the role played by fear in financial market panics. Professor Read demonstrates, in easy-to-understand terms, that rising market fear portends to major financial declines. He explains the science and the economics of fear and shows that the financial market has learned how to capitalize on investor or economic fear
They’re not the students strolling across the bucolic liberal arts campuses where their grandfathers played football. They are first-generation college students—children of immigrants and blue-collar workers—who know that their hopes for success hinge on a degree. But college is expensive, unfamiliar, and intimidating. Inexperienced students expect tough classes and demanding, remote faculty. They may not know what an assignment means, what a score indicates, or that a single grade is not a definitive measure of ability. And they certainly don’t feel entitled to be there. They do not presume success, and if they have a problem, they don’t expect to receive help or even a second chance. Rebecca D. Cox draws on five years of interviews and observations at community colleges. She shows how students and their instructors misunderstand and ultimately fail one another, despite good intentions. Most memorably, she describes how easily students can feel defeated—by their real-world responsibilities and by the demands of college—and come to conclude that they just don’t belong there after all. Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and administrators, The College Fear Factor reveals how the traditional college culture can actually pose obstacles to students’ success, and suggests strategies for effectively explaining academic expectations.
Christopher D. Bader,Joseph O. Baker,L. Edward Day,Ann Gordon
Author : Christopher D. Bader,Joseph O. Baker,L. Edward Day,Ann Gordon Publisher : NYU Press Page : 196 pages File Size : 48,5 Mb Release : 2020-03-03 Category : Religion ISBN : 9781479852055
Fear Itself by Christopher D. Bader,Joseph O. Baker,L. Edward Day,Ann Gordon Pdf
An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively effects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms. Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears—which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears—Fear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear. Fear Itself is a novel, wide-ranging study of the social consequences of fear, ultimately suggesting that there is good reason to be afraid of fear itself.
How to Improve Leadership in Higher Education Institutions by Ismail Noriey Pdf
This study explores how leaders in higher education (directors, principals, vice presidents, and presidents) in Kurdistan perceive leadership and the leadership skills required to make them effective. It also examines the challenges that leaders face in leading and managing their institution and how to improve their leadership. Knowledge sharing is acknowledged as the most significant resources for competitive advantage and the key to improving innovation. The knowledge management and the promotion of knowledge sharing among the members of an organization are a vital part of the learning process, as they help to convert the tacit knowledge. This research has an interest in understanding research participants subjective experiences as well as their general perception of the participative leadership in order to decide on the position as a researcher to adopt differing ontological, epistemological, and methodological assumptions that underpin each paradigm in turn or ways of viewing by educational research. The aim is to accomplish this in a way that influences me to position myself philosophically as a researcher that is a mix of interpretivist with positivist. The study data analysis adopted an interpretive approach and attempted to address the research questions through developing a structured interview and questionnaire guide to facilitate the collection of data. This is because some of participates (twenty-three) accepted questionnaire only. The sample in this mixed-methods case study is to investigate the perspective of the small cohort of fifteen leaders comprising ten males and five females currently or recently holding senior positions in the HEls in Kurdistan in two state and five private universities, and they accepted face-to-face interviews. The finding showed that the nature of leadership for leaders in higher education are complex, demanding, and requires a combination of leadership skills and management. This study captures insights about the four aspects that define leadership, which are leadership is distinct from management, leadership relates to leaders characteristics, leadership is about influencing, and leadership requires a vision. Correspondingly, there is data about leadership skills required for future university leaders to make them effective, such as communication skills. And there dis data about the four main challenges based on the findings, which are difficultly in sharing the leaders vision, poor communication skills, lack of self-confidence, and lack of motivation. Finally, it shows the ways in which leadership of university leaders could be improved, such as length of experience, and it highlights the possible inadequacies of formal leadership development for academic leaders in higher education in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Transhuman World and Its Fears by Michael Bassey Eneyo Pdf
As technological evolutions continue to gather momentum, there is a strong move by some scientists and philosophers to transform the present human nature that is characterized by the phenomenon of life and death into a superman, where aging and its corresponding end in death would be eliminated, making it possible for the humans to live for untold numbers of years. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robots and other technological machines will take over the basic duties of a natural human. This book looks at the features of this envisioned new world, and anticipates that the transhuman world will lack ethics of good living and respect for human life if proper measures are not taken to guide technologists and the technologies’ usage. Until this is done, the transhuman world would be worse than the Hobbesian State of Nature where life was said to be brutish, nasty and short. Since every step of growth goes with its unique kind of fear, the book adopts fearology (the study of fear and its management) in proposing what developing countries should do to be able to fully integrate into this expected world. For the developing countries to secure a leading place in the future world, they must take the studies of science, technology and philosophy seriously. This is why the author suggests the establishment of The Philosophy Academy and The Technology Intervention Institute to launch in unique perspectives on how the technologically-driven world can be instituted without necessarily negating the ethics of mutual living and respect for human life which ought to be the hallmark of every society.
Fears, Phobias, and Rituals by Isaac Meyer Marks Pdf
This book brings together information on fear and anxiety disorders from many disciplines, including ethology, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, psychology, and psychiatry.
Progress in Behavior Modification by Michel Hersen,Richard M. Eisler,Peter M. Miller Pdf
Progress in Behavior Modification, Volume 8 covers the developments in the study of behavior modification. The book discusses the conceptual issues and treatment interventions for obsessive-compulsives; the behavioral study of clinical phobias; and fear reduction techniques with children. The text also describes the behavioral treatments for marital discord; the behavioral treatment of headaches; and the behavioral assessment and treatment of clinical pain. The modification of academic performance in the grade school classroom is also considered. Psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, and educators will find the book invaluable.
A Call to Share By: Zke Zimmerman A Call to Share is a collection of letters that together define and identify systemic racism in America. The letters contained herein address systemic racism and how it has manifested in various segments of our society – education, corporate, government, and the church – most frequently through acts of omission. Each letter in this book contains suggested – admittedly often partial – solutions to the dominant manifestations of racism in a selected segment of our society.
Basic Training for a Safe Trail Horse by Martha Leynes-Selbert Pdf
For equestrians, horse trainers, and animal lovers, Basic Training for a Safe Trail Horse is a comprehensive, in-depth look at logical and humane training tips for optimal trail riding. Martha Leynes-Selbert, published writer and horse training specialist, has written a superb user's guide that gives trainers, riders and owners a distinctive way to establish a quiet and successful relationship with a horse. Leynes-Selbert's approach to a gentle way of training is explained in detail along with photographs that give the reader step-by-step instruction. Through her relationship with horse trainer, Patricia Allard, Leynes-Selbert's proven methods include relating to the horse as an "alpha mare" instead of a predator. She takes all aspects of fear-based training out of the equation and highlights the intelligence of this regal animal. Her methods include a more compassionate approach-how horses can actually respond to the rider or trainer through words and patient attention.