Tag: Fear
Some people love to scare themselves in an already scary world...
Sarah Kollat, Penn State
Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses....
Anxiety can often be a drag on creativity, upending the trope...
Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University
In the U.S., anxiety disorders affect about one-third of the population. So it’s no...
The creepy clown emerged from the crass and bawdy circuses of...
Madeline Steiner, University of South Carolina
The scary clown has become a horror staple.
Featuring Art...
Rainbow fentanyl – the newest Halloween scare
Joel Best, University of Delaware
Every year around the middle of October, reporters start contacting me wanting to talk...
How to outsmart your COVID-19 fears and boost your mood in...
Laurel Mellin, University of California, San Francisco
After a year of toxic stress ignited by so much fear and uncertainty, now is a good time...
How lingering fears from the pandemic could change the way we...
Josh Woods, West Virginia University
Taiwan’s pro baseball league rebooted operations in mid-April with robot spectators filling the bleachers. A month later, Major League Baseball...
Why we love big, blood-curdling screams
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
Of all the sounds humans produce, nothing captures our attention quite like a good scream.
They’re a regular feature of horror...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
