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ast fall, when Ebola came to town, it was as if the entire nation had a conniption. On Sept. 30, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a Liberian citizen visiting family was sick with the deadly virus. Within weeks, more than half of adults believed there would be a widespread outbreak of Ebola within a year. Others were scared stiff, glued to the glow of their news-spewing screens like deer in headlights, drowning in dread even as expert after expert calmly explained that to become infected with Ebola requires a series of unfortunate—and very-unlikely-in-Hometown, U.S.A.—events involving bodily fluids and open wounds. In fact, so far there have been only nine other cases of Ebola in this country, and among those, just one death—hardly a zombie-esque outcome. The thing that was really “catching” was fear. Sociologists often refer to fears shared by a group as “moral panics.” The Holocaust and 9/11 were certainly legitimate reasons for large groups of people to be afraid. But some pretty silly stuff has triggered mass panic over the years. In 1878, for example, a New York Times editorial suggested that Thomas Edison had “invented too many things” and that “something ought to be done to Mr. Edison, and there is a growing conviction that it had better be done with hemp rope.” Around the same time, folks were up in arms about the danger of “selfish and unsocial species of warfare which two of a company carry on for hours together.” The evil activity in question? Chess! (Take that, Minecraft!) So, why, despite our lofty perch on the evolutionary tree of life, do we of opposable thumbs and logic-capable minds break into en masse sweat in response to things that are as likely to harm us as reindeer are to fly?

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It turns out that when it comes to fear, our superior brains are no more superior than, well, a reindeer’s—or even a bacterium’s. “The human brain is a survival machine, not a ﬁgure-it-out computer,” says risk perception expert David Ropeik, author of How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts. “After you wake up in the morning, its primary job is to get you safely to bed at night, not to get good grades or discover something.” To do this, the brain relies on what neuroscientist Dr. Joseph LeDoux, author of The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life, refers to as OMG! “threat-trigIs that GLU gered defense TEN??? responses”— the clammy hands, goose bumps, weak knees and other sensations that we associate with fear (see Your Body On Fear, page 6). These defense responses have nothing to do with reason. The part of the brain that detects danger, the amygdala, is simply a switch that flips on so that the body can react—ASAP—to a potential threat. Because of its location in the brain, it receives sensory information before the prefrontal cortex, the thinking part of the brain, explains Ropeik. That means that the body will go into fightflight-or-freeze mode before our minds can make sense of what’s going on. More importantly, it means that it’s only human to experience so-called irrational fear. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t be here.

FEAR THIS, NOT THAT What scares people the most isn’t identity theft, terrorist attacks, earthquakes or even clowns. It’s walking alone in the dark. That’s according to the Chapman University Survey on American Fears, a nationwide poll of 1,500 adults released last October. The survey also conﬁrmed that our fears often don’t match reality. Take crime: “People are scared of serial killers and pedophiles, when they should be focused on domestic violence,” says Dr. Christopher Bader, who led the study. In other words, the odds show we’re more likely to be victimized by someone we know than a Dexter wanna-be. The survey also found that even when a fear is well founded, folks are often unlikely to prepare for it. The majority of those who live in areas where the risk of natural disasters is high admitted to not having emergency kits, says Bader. Clearly, we’re not very good at evaluating risk, so here’s an unofﬁcial roundup of what we shouldn’t worry about in the coming year—and what we should. Fear this… Flu

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Of course, news outlets stoke the fire of collective fear. “The media loves to tap into the fear response because it doesn’t engage with the rational mind. Scary headlines and disturbing images are captivating,” says sociologist Dr. Margee Kerr, whose book Scream: Adventures in the Upside of Fear comes out in October. Adds Dr. Christopher Bader, a professor of sociology and the lead researcher of the Chapman University Survey on American Fears (see Fear This, Not That, page 5): “People often don’t realize that when they’re watching the news they’re watching the worst possible scenario. That’s why it’s news: A serial killer gets airtime because he’s rare, not because serial murders are on the rise.” There are good reasons to try to reign in the alarmist amygdala. It’s one thing to experience an isolated scare—say, the sight of an oncoming car swerving into our lane. We

need our innate defense responses to make us physically capable of steering clear. Fear is the caped crusader who swoops in, saves the day, and then disappears once the danger is past. But it takes about four hours for the body to recover completely from fright and settle into a normal, healthy state. When it doesn’t, fear can morph into chronic stress and anxiety, prolonging defense responses like elevated blood pressure, suppressed immune system and out-of-whack hormone levels. “Chronic stress impairs fertility and memory,” adds Ropeik. “It interferes with neurotransmitters associated with mood, which may increase the risk of clinical depression. Suicide rates in America have tripled, and an intellectual case can be made that there’s a connection.” THE RISK PERCEPTION GAP

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Sound, smell, visual image or other stimulus is captured. Stimulus hits amygdala, which registers danger (skipping thinking part of brain).

Heart pumps blood to arms and legs more quickly and forcefully, priming them to fight or flee, and causing a rise in blood pressure. Blood flow may increase by as much as 400 percent! The extra tension in your poised-for-action legs can literally cause you to shake in your boots.

Breathing speeds up to get oxygen into the lungs, where it’s picked up by blood and delivered to muscles. Adrenal glands release chemicals such as epinephrine and cortisol into the bloodstream, triggering a variety of defense mechanisms. Hair on arms and legs stands up, a reflex that probably made our hairier ancestors look bigger and scarier. Now this trick just results in goose bumps; it’s why you might describe a horror movie as “hair-raising.”

Perspiration picks up when you’re scared in case you need to fight or run, causing clammy hands and a sweaty brow. As it evaporates, it cools you down. Eyes seem to pop out of your head. Eyelids widen and pupils dilate so you can see as much of your surroundings as possible.

The rush of blood to the arms and legs, leaving other body parts cold, creates the sensation of chills up the spine.

Messages from the part of the brain that prevents the bladder from letting loose (the frontal lobe) may be overridden by the limbic system, which controls the fear response. The result: an urgent need to pee—or even an accident.

When the body’s in crisis mode, digestion shuts down since it’s not necessary while fighting or fleeing. This can cause“butterflies” in the belly, nausea and diarrhea. The immune system goes on break in order to reorganize itself to fight infection. (One reason you’re more likely to get sick when chronically stressed.)

The parts of the brain responsible for short-term memory, concentration and rational thought go on hiatus while the focus is on saving your own hide.

Dry mouth results when fluids in the body are diverted away from areas where they aren’t needed to participate in the fear response. Throat muscles tend to spasm in the face of danger too, which is why it can be hard to swallow.

It’s unlikely you’ll be able to pluck a car off a pinned pedestrian, but because you’re so pumped for action, you may be able to tap into reserves of muscle strength that you can’t otherwise.

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rying too much or not enough. Ropeik calls this the risk perception gap. “Folks who are afraid of flying will drive instead, which is statistically riskier. That’s worrying too much,” he says. “On the other hand, people will text while behind the wheel, which is not worrying enough.” Irrational fear can also lead to dangerous social choices, Ropeik adds. “We spend more money for research on cancer than on heart disease, which is a bigger threat, because heart disease doesn’t scare us as much. That’s because cancer kills in a prolonged and painful way. We aren’t just afraid of becoming dead, we’re afraid of how we become dead.” Sometimes moral panic is a self-fulfilling prophecy. “When we become afraid of a space, we often create a space to be afraid of,” Bader says. “If a park is wrongly rumored to harbor dangerous drug dealers, all the regular visitors to that park stay away—and eventually drug dealers will move in.” This doesn’t mean, of course, that all fears are unfounded. Many legitimate fears simply don’t feel immediate enough to tickle our amygdala. It also doesn’t mean that we’re doomed to become slaves to the things that scare us. Watching less TV news would help, says Kerr—or at least remembering that it’s designed to entertain as well as inform. So would learning to give facts more weight in decision-making, says Ropeik. “When fear sets in, try to let your rational brain have a voice. If you do, your choices will be healthier.”

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That would be Nicole Kidman, who says she “could be covered in cockroaches,” but has suffered from lepidopterophobia—a fear of butterflies and moths—since she was a little kid in Australia: “I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies.”

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Oprah Winfrey is scared of… gum. The queen of chewing the fat confessed to Jamie Foxx in an interview, “My grandmother used to chew gum, then stick it in the cabinet. There were rows and rows of Juicy Fruit and Spearmint. I was afraid of it. Even now I don’t allow gum in the building where I work.” Matthew McConaughey is scared of

… tunnels: “You know that spot where you can’t see for about 10 feet. You can’t see what’s in front of you or if someone’s broken down or something is in front of you,” he has said.

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Katy Perry is scared of… the dark. She sleeps with lights on and keeps her toes under the covers because, she’s said, “I’m like that kid who thinks there’s a witch under my bed who’s going to eat my tootsies off.” For more celebrity fears, visit parade.com/fears

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