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008			170508s2017 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2017014787
020			_a9781541697195 (hardback)
020			_z9781541697201 (e-book)
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040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dDLC
050	0	0	_aBF575.F2 _bM374 2017
082	0	0	_a152.4/6 _223
084			_aPSY022000 _aSCI089000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aMarsh, Abigail,
245	1	4	_aThe fear factor : _bhow one emotion connects altruists, psychopaths, and everyone in-between / _cAbigail Marsh.
250			_aFirst Edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c[2017]
300			_avii, 302 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"When a dog ran in front of her car, Abigail Marsh swerved to avoid it. She next opened her eyes to see that she was stranded in the middle of the highway, facing oncoming traffic, and unable to restart her car. Just as she abandoned all hopes of survival, a stranger, at great risk to his own life, crossed the highway, got her car running, and brought her back to safety. For Marsh, this remains a revelation: much of social psychology depicts human nature as fundamentally selfish, cruel, and self-interested but here was a fellow human willing to help another with no benefit to himself. Why? In The Fear Factor, Abigail Marsh, now a psychology professor at Georgetown, provides the answer. By studying the brain of psychopaths and extraordinary altruists in an MRI, Marsh uncovered a surprisingly simple mechanism lying behind our capacity for empathy: the ability to recognize others' fear. Psychopathy, she discovered, is an inability to understand others' fear as well as to even recognize the feeling: one psychopath could famously only identify fear as what his victims looked like before he stabbed them. In turn, extraordinary altruists have stronger responses to others' fear, overturning the conventional cliché of the fearless hero. And altruism is not simply reserved for fellow humans. As Abigail Marsh walks us from one fascinating revelation to the next, we meet mother rats who risk their lives to rescue unknown pups; lions who take care of the children of their prey; and dogs who become the caretakers of orphan animals. Once you stop to look, examples of altruism are simply everywhere across the living world. A revelation, The Fear Factor is both a paradigm-shifting book on the heights and depths of human behavior, and an enthralling read filled with unforgettable stories"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_aFear.
650		0	_aPhilanthropists _xPsychology _vCase studies.
650		0	_aPsychopaths _xPsychology _vCase studies.
650		7	_aPSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience. _2bisacsh
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aMarsh, Abigail, author. _tFear factor _bFirst Edition. _dNew York : Basic Books, 2017 _z9781541697201 _w(DLC) 2017022393
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