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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Marsh, Abigail, author.     Subjects     Fear.     Altruism.     Philanthropists -- Psychology -- Case studies.     Psychopaths -- Psychology -- Case studies.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Marsh, Abigail, author.       by title:      The fear factor : ho...         MARC Display

The fear factor : how one emotion connects altruists, psychopaths, and everyone in-between / Abigail Marsh. by Marsh, Abigail, author. New York : Basic Books, 2017. Subjects Fear.   Altruism.   Philanthropists -- Psychology -- Case studies.   Psychopaths -- Psychology -- Case studies. ISBN:  9781541697195 (hardcover) : 1541697197 (hardcover) Description:  vii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 152.46 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Nonfiction 152.46 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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