(Special) Things That Go Boom: Fee-fi-fo-fear
For many, 2020 has been a scary year. In an effort to get to the root of why many people feel this way, the first thing we did was something we probably should have done a long time ago — we reached out to a psychiatrist. In a new season of "Things That Go Boom," The World's partner podcast from PRX, host Laicie Heeley also asked listeners, friends and family to answer what might seem like a pretty simple question: How safe do you feel? The answers weren't simple at all.
Guests: Arash Javanbakht, psychiatry researcher; Bunmi Akinnusotu, host of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-in-the-world/id1368264971" target="_blank">What in the World?</a>
Additional reading:
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174209?seq=1" target="_blank">Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals</a>, Carol Cohn
<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-politics-of-fear-how-fear-goes-tribal-allowing-us-to-be-manipulated-109626" target="_blank">The politics of fear: How...
For many, 2020 has been a scary year. In an effort to get to the root of why many people feel this way, the first thing we did was something we probably should have done a long time ago — we reached out to a psychiatrist. In a new season of "Things That Go Boom," The World's partner podcast from PRX, host Laicie Heeley also asked listeners, friends and family to answer what might seem like a pretty simple question: How safe do you feel? The answers weren't simple at all.
Guests: Arash Javanbakht, psychiatry researcher; Bunmi Akinnusotu, host of What in the World?
Additional reading:
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, Carol Cohn
The politics of fear: How fear goes tribal, allowing us to be manipulated, Arash Javanbakht
When mask-wearing rules in the 1918 pandemic faced resistance, Becky Little
As the 1918 flu emerged, cover-up and denial helped it spread, Becky Little