Tag: Fear

  • Nation & World

    A key inflation index leaps. Getting worried?

    Economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses how consumers’ perceptions about inflation are an important factor that influences inflationary cycles.

    7 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    ‘Happiness scholar’ cites three ways to start healing rifts

    In the Solutions series, Arthur Brooks, a “happiness scholar” at HKS and HBS, explains why we’re so divided as a nation and suggests some actions people can take to begin healing rifts in everyday lives.

    16 minutes
    Illustration of two people looking at each other.
  • Nation & World

    Learning not to fear

    A study using mindfulness meditation showed changes over time in neural responses to pain and fear. The researchers found that changes in the hippocampus after mindfulness training were associated with enhanced ability to recall a safety memory, and thus respond in a more adaptive way.

    3 minutes
    Illustration of meditator with fear shadow
  • Nation & World

    Bent toward violence

    Harvard psychiatrist Ronald Schouten answers questions on the San Bernardino attack and the psychology behind both terrorism and the fear it spreads.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Giving phobias a rest

    A Harvard-led research team has found that exposure therapy for irrational fear of spiders seems to be more effective if it is followed by sleep, according to a recent study in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Not so different after all

    Marines in Iraq, students at Harvard are alike in wondering: Where do their lives go next?

    5 minutes