Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear

By Joseph Cooper,

Richard Ives

Published October 28, 2015 at 1:00 PM EDT

10/25/15 - On Wednesday’s Topical Currentswe visit with Margee Kerr. She studies the science of fear.

Yes, Saturday is Halloween, and people fear goblins and haunted houses . . . but those pale in comparison to intense raw fear. Kerr has written SCREAM: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, which explores every dimension of how it works in our bodies and minds . . . and why some people even crave it. Joins us if you dare . . . Wednesday at 1pm.

A Sociologist who Studies Fear? Video via ScareHouse fear expert Margee Kerr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsS7i74nF_g

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Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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