http://portablelearner.com/linking-thinking/the-cost-of-fearing-strangers/ A website by Shanta Rohse on learning, technology and design Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://portablelearner.com/linking-thinking/the-cost-of-fearing-strangers/#comment-2455 Rational and Irrational Fear : John Connell: The Blog Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:58:10 +0000 http://portablelearner.com/665/the-cost-of-fearing-strangers/#comment-2455 [...] Shanta Rohse points to a piece on the Freakonomics blog - The Cost of Fearing Strangers - by Stephen Dubner. Why do we fear the unknown more than the known?………it probably has to do with the heuristics — the shortcut guesses — our brains use to solve problems, and the fact that these heuristics rely on the information already stored in our memories. [...] […] Shanta Rohse points to a piece on the Freakonomics blog — The Cost of Fearing Strangers — by Stephen Dubner. Why do we fear the unknown more than the known?………it probably has to do with the heuristics — the shortcut guesses — our brains use to solve problems, and the fact that these heuristics rely on the information already stored in our memories. […]

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