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Fear is a strong emotion and it can be manipulated to persuade people into making emotional rather than reasoned choices. From car commercials that imply that having fewer airbags will cause the audience's family harm, to disinfectant commercials that show pathogenic bacteria lurking on every surface , fear-based advertising works. [ 16 ]
Culture of fear (or climate of fear) is the concept which describes the pervasive feeling of fear in a given group, often due to actions taken by leaders. The term was popularized by Frank Furedi [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and has been more recently popularized by the American sociologist Barry Glassner .
Jodi Dean argues that "the rise of far-right anti-communism in many parts of the world" should be interpreted "as a politics of fear, which utilizes the disaffection and anger generated by capitalism. [...] Partisans of far right-wing organizations, in turn, use anti-communism to challenge every political current which is not embedded in a ...
Freedom from fear is listed as a fundamental human right according to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948. On January 6, 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it one of the " Four Freedoms " at his State of the Union , which was afterwards therefore referred to as the "Four Freedoms speech". [ 1 ]
Longtime political scientist Norman Ornstein on Wednesday explained why he believes the 2024 election is likely to go down as “the most significant and most destructive” in America’s history.
The fear of isolation is the "engine that drives the spiral of silence". [41] Essentially, people fear becoming social isolates and thus take measures to avoid such a consequence, as demonstrated by psychologist Solomon Asch in the Asch conformity experiments. [42]
More than 40% of Americans surveyed say the top threat to the economy is the current political environment.
Tim Walz compared Donald Trump to school bullies as he criticised the former president for running on "the politics of fear." Kamala Harris's VP pick drew on his background as a high school social ...