Daniel Gardner - The Science of Fear

Rosenthal, Jeffrey

Rothman, Alexander

Rothman, Stanley

Rottenstreich, Yuval

Rozin, Paul

Rule of Typical Things

Ryle, Gilbert

Sachs, Jeffrey

Sagan, Carl

sanitation

sarin gas

Sarkozy, Nicolas

Schacter, Daniel

Scheuer, Michael

Schneider, Stephen

school shootings

Schwartz, Lisa

Schwartz, Tony

Schwartzman, Donna

Schwarz, Norbert

security industry

Shames, Daniel

shark attacks

Sharpe, Richard

Sherman, Steven

sickle-cell anemia

Siegrist, Michael

Silent Spring (Carson)

Simon, Herbert

Sinaceur, Marwan

Slovic, Paul

and breast implant risks

and the Good-Bad Rule

and health risk research

and impact of culture

and media influence

and numeracy

risk perception research

and the Tenerife conference

and the tobacco lawsuit

Small, Deborah

smallpox

Smart, Elizabeth

Smith, Anna Nicole

smoking

Sokolove, Michael

Stahl, Leslie

Stalin, Joseph

statistics

and the breast implant scare

contrasted with stories

and crime risks

and health risks

methodological issues

probability blindness

Strack, Fritz

Stuber, Bob

Sunstein, Cass

Sutcliffe, Simon

Suzuki, David

Taliban

Tenerife

Tenet, George

Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa)

terrorism

and the Bush administration

and catastrophist writing

and cost-benefit analysis

and global communications

and the Good-Bad Rule

low-probability/high-consequence event

and marketing fear

and media coverage

political reaction to

psychological impact

and risk perception

and weapons of mass destruction

Tetlock, Philip

Thoreau, Henry David

Trunzo, Caesar

tsunamis

Tunguska event

Tversky, Amos

typhoid fever

typhus

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

vaccines

Vallone, Robert

Vandello, Joseph

Vietnam War

volcanoes

VX nerve agent

Wald, George

Walsh, John

Wansink, Brian

Wason, Peter

water purification

Waxman, Henry

weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)

Weingart, John

Wells, Holly

Westen, Drew

West Nile virus

Whelan, Paul

Whylie, Barbara

Wildavsky, Aaron

Will, George

Willer, Robb

Wilms, Ian

Wilson, Robyn

Winfrey, Oprah

Winkielman, Piotr

Wolf, Naomi

Woloshin, Steven

World Health Organization (WHO)

Worldwatch Institute

World Wildlife Fund

York, Herbert

Zajonc, Robert

Zaltman, Gerald

Zillman, Dolf

Zimmerman, Peter

About the Author

Daniel Gardner is a columnist and senior writer with the Ottawa Citizen . Trained in history and law, Gardner worked as a policy adviser in government before turning to journalism in 1997. His writing has received numerous awards, including the National Newspaper Award, Amnesty International’s Media Award, and others. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children.