#risk-perception

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fromFlowingData
2 days ago

Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from

News outlets overreport rare, dramatic causes of death and underreport common causes like heart disease and cancer, skewing public perception of mortality risks.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why You Should Indulge Your Morbid Curiosity

Do you run to a haunted house every Halloween? Do you rubberneck after a grizzly car crash? Do you devour grotesque true crime documentaries? If so, that's natural-and it may even be good for you, according to Coltan Scrivner, a researcher of all things macabre and a fan as well-one recent project was founding a horror film festival where he lives in the Ozarks.
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