Archive for July, 2002
The Psychology of Fear (Part 2)
Monday, July 22nd, 2002There is a system in the old part of the brain called the amygdala. It controls, in part, our fear factor (fight or flight). In the Neanderthal days it would alert us to real physical dangers that we could respond to with a big club. Once the source of our fear was dead or incapacitated, [...]
The Psychology of Fear (Part 1)
Monday, July 15th, 2002About a month or so ago a friend of mine was telling me about an article he’d just read on the internet about how WorldCom was caught cooking the books and would likely declare bankruptcy as a result. As I listened to him, I imagined a dark storm cloud forming in the already gray and [...]