The Fear Factor

Author : Abigail Marsh
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541697200
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fear Factor written by Abigail Marsh and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Rebecca D. Cox
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674053664
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The College Fear Factor written by Rebecca D. Cox and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jesse Leon McCann
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780439790499
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear Factor written by Jesse Leon McCann and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 75 of the grossest, scariest, and creepiest photos to show you what contestants are willing to try in order to win on a reality show.

Author : Richard Fenton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977439355
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fear Factory written by Richard Fenton and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there really was a Fear Factory? What if there was actually a company whose business it was to manufacture fear? What would their mission statement be? How would they go about marketing their product to the consumer? Who would their competition be? And where would they set up operation? It's a rainy Seattle morning and account executive Steven Traynor is on his way to the most important business meeting of his life. But as the elevator ascends toward the client's office on the 14th floor of the Fearn Tower office building, Steven's life is about to change forever. In this book you will learn... - The only fears that come as "standard equipment" at birth - How fears are manufactured, bought, and "sold" at the Fear Factory - To identify the "triggering events" that cause fears - How to desensitize yourself to the things you fear - Ways to turn fear into the fuel needed to accomplish goals - Why you must do something everyday that scares you! - And how to put the Fear Factory out of business forever! The lessons that Steven learns on his wild journey through the Fear Factory are going to have a profound impact on his life... will it do the same for you? Come in and take a tour for yourself!

Author : Robert Harris
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307957950
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fear Index written by Robert Harris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the nexus of high finance and sophisticated computer programming, a terrifying future may be unfolding even now. Dr. Alex Hoffmann’s name is carefully guarded from the general public, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultrarich he is a legend. He has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But one morning before dawn, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside mansion, and so begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him. Fiendishly smart and suspenseful, The Fear Index gives us a searing glimpse into an all-too-recognizable world of greed and panic. It is a novel that forces us to confront the question of what it means to be human—and it is Robert Harris’s most spellbinding and audacious novel to date.

Author : Roger Price
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN 13 : 9780843111576
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear Factor Mad Libs written by Roger Price and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can kids swim with slimy snakes, munch on wiggly worms, and play their favorite party game? By playing Fear Factor Mad Libs: Ultimate Gross Out!Kids love the daring and disgusting, and Fear Factor Mad Libs: Ultimate Gross Out!serves up both, along with a big helping of fun! As a follow-up to our best-selling Fear Factor Mad Libs, kids will love grossing themselves out with the show’s signature “delicacy” challenges! To tie into the premiere of Fear Factor’s fifth season in September 2004, Fear Factor Mad Libs: Ultimate Gross Out!is sure to make Mad Libsfans ______ to their_____________________________!

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081729
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev: The Man and His Era written by William Taubman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-17 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, Khrushchev nevertheless retained his humanity: his daring attempt to reform communism prepared the ground for its eventual collapse; and his awkward efforts to ease the cold war triggered its most dangerous crises. This is the first comprehensive biography of Khrushchev and the first of any Soviet leader to reflect the full range of sources that have become available since the USSR collapsed. Combining a page-turning historical narrative with penetrating political and psychological analysis, this book brims with the life and excitement of a man whose story personified his era.

Author : Pumla Dineo Gqola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913175153
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Fear Factory written by Pumla Dineo Gqola and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Yet, it does use nationalism very productively. An empty street at night. A crowded bus. A lecture hall. All sites of female fear, instilled in women and those who have been constructed female, from an early age. Drawing on examples from around the world - from Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa to Saudi Arabia, the Americas and Europe, Gqola traces the construction and machinations of the female fear factory by exposing its lies, myths, and seductions. She shows how seemingly disparate effects, like driving bans, street harassment, and coercive professors, are the product of the ever-turning machinery of the female fear factory, and its use of fear as a tool of patriarchal subjugation and punishment. Female Fear Factory: Gender and Patriarchy under Racial Capitalism is a sobering account of patriarchal violence in the world, and a hopeful vision for the work of unapologetic feminist imaginative strategies across the globe.

Author : Abigail Marsh
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472137791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good for Nothing written by Abigail Marsh and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new popular science book exploring the cutting edge science explaining human altruism and psychopathy, how closely they can be mapped, and how the potential to be more compassionate and kind exists in all of us. If humans are fundamentally good, why do we engage in acts of great cruelty? If we are evil, why do we sometimes help others at a cost to ourselves? Whether humans are good or evil is a question that has plagued philosophers and scientists for as long as there have been philosophers and scientists. Many argue that we are fundamentally selfish, and only the rules and laws of our societies and our own relentless efforts of will can save us from ourselves. But is this really true? Abigail Marsh is a social neuroscientist who has closely studied the brains of both the worst and the best among us-from children with psychopathic traits whose families live in fear of them, to adult altruists who have given their own kidneys to strangers. Her groundbreaking findings suggest a possibility that is more optimistic than the dominant view. Humans are not good or evil, but are equally (and fundamentally) capable of good and evil."--Publisher description.

Author : Jesse Leon McCann
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780439803489
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yikes! written by Jesse Leon McCann and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Top 10 lists, games, facts, stats, and interviews, this book is packed with everything you need to know about the most daring Fear Factor stunts ever attempted!