by Dan Gardner
Gardner, working closely with risk researcher Paul Slovic, shows how the human brain's ancient intuitive 'gut' system systematically misreads statistical risk, and how media, politicians, and advocates exploit those miscalibrations. The book is a field guide to why we fear terrorism over car crashes and how to recalibrate intuition with evidence.
In this collection, Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear references 4 other books.
It draws on Predictably Irrational, The Black Swan and Outliers.
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References Ariely's Predictably Irrational research on emotional and context-dependent decision-making when contrasting head and gut
Cites Taleb's The Black Swan on rare-event blindness and narrative fallacy throughout the discussion of media-amplified fear
Engages with Gladwell's Outliers-era popular accounts of expertise and intuition when separating useful gut feeling from availability-driven panic
Draws on Gladwell's The Tipping Point to explain how fears cascade socially through epidemics of attention and news coverage
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