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Tag: Fear

What is the Fundamental Difference that Separates People Politically?

Phil Mayes Apr 29, 2024 Tagged with Democracy, Emotions, Fear
What is the Fundamental Difference that Separates People Politically?

Political positions are emotional as well as rational, and depend on the degree of trust in…

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Why Language is a Superpower and Why That Has Created a Problem

Phil Mayes Feb 23, 2022 Tagged with Emotions, Fear, Love
Why Language is a Superpower and Why That Has Created a Problem

We humans are a wildly successful species. Why is that? As life developed, it first responded …

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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

Phil Mayes Apr 16, 2019 Tagged with confirmation bias, Fear

I offer this Reddit discussion about the FOX News article Honduran man charged with raping, killing jogger …

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The Four Forces Driving Political Conflict

Phil Mayes Aug 31, 2018 Tagged with Democracy, Fear, Haidt
The Four Forces Driving Political Conflict

Years ago, I thought I was going to die. The streets were dark and slick with …

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How to Regard This Week’s Race Conflicts

Phil Mayes Jul 9, 2016 Tagged with Fear, Guns, Race, Saletan

William Saletan has written a Slate article There Is a War Over Race in America in which …

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The Psychology of Politics

Phil Mayes Jan 2, 2013 Tagged with Fear

Years ago, I thought I was going to die. I was a back-seat passenger getting a …

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