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37. Can Fear Be Good Medicine?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How Can We Use Fear to Make People Healthy?

How can we use fear to make people healthier? The more fear you use, the bigger the effect that you have. Fear plays a very important functional role in preventing us from doing things that might otherwise cause us harm. There are many situations that are ambiguous in terms of what's right or wrong. What fear can do is bias the kinds of information that we end up paying attention to.

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