Imagine you're a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates -- but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose? In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.
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Jarvis is a self-described optimist, but he isn’t blind. Radically new technologies, he recognizes, raise important legal and ethical issues that need to be addressed – the protection of privacy, for example. But we should be most skeptical, he urges, of our own tendency to fear the new rather than seizing it creatively to amplify the best in ourselves. 
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After showing subjects short, scary videos, the researchers found that the terrorized viewers had a greater appreciation for abstract art shown to them immediately afterwards.
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The hormone oxytocin can be speedily delivered to the brain's fear center, a new study shows.
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Humans can smell fear and disgust, and the emotions are contagious, according to a new study. The findings, published Nov. 5 in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that humans communicate via smell just like other animals.
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What makes people behave kindly? Is it the result of having been nurtured in an environment of love and kindness that makes you more likely to treat others the same way? Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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In frightening situations, people tend to freeze, but not recent moms, who charge ahead.
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Our primal response to danger is part of what has kept us alive. But our capacity to imagine the future can turn it pathological.
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