The Science of Fear

Al-Mobruk, Sala Abdel

American Cancer Society

Arbogast, Jessie

asteroids and meteors

Atwood, Margaret

Bin Laden, Osama

biological weapons

Birnbaum, Linda

Bloomberg, Michael

bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

brain physiology

breast implants

Brunsman, Bethany

Bush, George H. W.

Bush, George W.

and chemical exposure

and the Good-Bad Rule-

and marketing of fear

and media coverage

and the precautionary principle

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Chapman, Jessica

Chernobyl disaster

Chertoff, Michael

and chemical exposure

child predators

mortality rates

and risk perception

Cialdini, Robert

Clarke, Richard

Clinton, Hillary

Columbine High School shooting

confirmation bias

Congleton, Roger

Cooper, Anderson

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. See also bovine spongiform

encephalopathy (BSE)

crime and violence . See also terrorism; specific crimes and events

Crutchfield, Richard

Cvetkovich, George

Dalley, Marlene

Darwin, Charles

Dehaene, Stanislas

Descartes, René

Devlin, Michael

Dobson, William

Douglas, William O.

Dukakis, Michael

Eisenhower, Dwight

endocrine disruptor hypothesis

Epley, Nicholas

and emotion in risk perception

and entertainment media

and excessive information

and group polarization

and habituation

and marketing of fear

and nuclear power

and scientific information

and tobacco marketing

Fantino, Julian

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Finucane, Melissa

Fischhoff, Baruch

Franklin, Benjamin

Frederick, Shane

Friedman, Thomas

Frosch, Dominick

Fumento, Michael

Gazzaniga, Michael

genetically modified organisms-

Gigerenzer, Gerd

Gilbert, Daniel

Gilmore Committee

Gilovich, Thomas

Given, James Buchanan

Gladwell, Malcolm

Gold, Lois Swirsky

Goldwater, Barry

Gonzales, Alberto

and chemical exposure

and disease awareness

and emotional imagery

and emotion in risk perception

and entertainment media

and habituation

and health risks

and language use

and marketing fear

and media coverage

and probability blindness

and risk assessment

and scientific information

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gould, Stephen Jay

group polarization

Gusiakov, Slava

Harper, Stephen

Harris, Russell

Hawking, Stephen

Heine, Heinrich

Higginson, John

Hinrichs, Joel Henry

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hornbeck, Shawn

Howard, Michael

Hsee, Christopher

Hueper, William

hunter-gatherers

Hurricane Katrina

Hussein, Saddam

Ignatieff, Michael

irritable bowel syndrome

Jenkins, Brian Michael

Johnson, Stephen

Kahneman, Daniel

Kassirer, Jerome

Keeley, Lawrence

Kennedy, John F.

Krewski, Daniel

Kunstler, James Howard

Leiserowitz, Anthony

Lessner, Richard

Lewinsky, Monica

Lichtenfeld, Leonard

Lichtenstein, Sarah

Lichter, Robert

Livingstone, Ken

Loewenstein, George

Lunsford, Jessica

Macallair, Daniel

mad cow disease. See bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Manningham-Buller, Eliza

Margolis, Howard

Marshall, Monty

Mauskopf, Roslynn

McArthur, David

McCann, Madeleine

McCarthy, Cormac

McNeil, Barbara

McVeigh, Timothy

Mintzes, Barbara

Montaigne, Michel de

Mueller, Robert

Mullet, Etienne

Muskavitch, Marc

Mussweiler, Thomas

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Throwaway Children (NISMART)

Nemeroff, Carol

nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)

nuclear weapons

O’Connor, Diana

Oklahoma City bombing

Olbermann, Keith

O’Reilly, Bill

Paddock, William

Palmer, Alexander Mitchell

Pew Research Center

pharmaceutical industry

and the Good-Bad Rule

and group consensus

and historical trends

and marketing fear

political advertising

and risk management

and the road rage panic

Posner, Richard

precautionary principle

Preston, Richard

probability blindness

Quick, Jonathan

RAND-MIPT terrorism database

Remm, Larry, Jr.

restless legs syndrome

Richardson, Louise

Roberts, Julian

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rosenthal, Jeffrey

Rothman, Alexander

Rothman, Stanley

Rottenstreich, Yuval

Rule of Typical Things

Sarkozy, Nicolas

Schacter, Daniel

Scheuer, Michael

Schneider, Stephen

school shootings

Schwartzman, Donna

Schwarz, Norbert

security industry

Sharpe, Richard

Sherman, Steven

sickle-cell anemia

Siegrist, Michael

Silent Spring (Carson)

Sinaceur, Marwan

and breast implant risks

and the Good-Bad Rule

and health risk research

and impact of culture

and media influence

risk perception research

and the Tenerife conference

and the tobacco lawsuit

Smart, Elizabeth

Smith, Anna Nicole

Sokolove, Michael

and the breast implant scare

contrasted with stories

and crime risks

and health risks

methodological issues

probability blindness

Sutcliffe, Simon

Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa)

and the Bush administration

and catastrophist writing

and cost-benefit analysis

and global communications

and the Good-Bad Rule

low-probability/high-consequence event

and marketing fear

and media coverage

political reaction to

psychological impact

and risk perception

and weapons of mass destruction

Tetlock, Philip

Thoreau, Henry David

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Vallone, Robert

Vandello, Joseph

water purification

weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)

West Nile virus

Whylie, Barbara

Wildavsky, Aaron

Winkielman, Piotr

Woloshin, Steven

World Health Organization (WHO)

Worldwatch Institute

World Wildlife Fund

Zaltman, Gerald

Zimmerman, Peter