The Cost of Fearing Strangers - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Jan 09
  

  Mohit Just

  So the next time your brain insists on fearing strangers, try to tell it to cool out a bit. It’s not that you necessarily need to insist that it fear your friends and family instead — unless, of course, you are friends with someone like Bernie Madoff. Don

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• 12 Jan 09
  

  Great inspiration for a running editorial on "things people should have learned in college but didn't"

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  The things we fear the most are simply irrational

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• 07 Jan 09
  

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  shaz rasul

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  Sean Devine

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  mhamburg

  interesting fear heuristics cost freakonomics crime behavioraleconomics

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