Fear - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/fear/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:14:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Fear - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/fear/ 32 32 Spooky Science: The Psychology of Paranormal Beliefs https://allpsych.com/spooky-science-the-psychology-of-paranormal-beliefs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spooky-science-the-psychology-of-paranormal-beliefs https://allpsych.com/spooky-science-the-psychology-of-paranormal-beliefs/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:00:51 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1796 Long-time readers of this blog will know that I can take the fun out of almost any holiday. For Thanksgiving, I’ve written about the advantages of being ungrateful and the inner lives of Turkeys. On Valentines day, I covered loneliness. So, Happy Halloween! Let’s talk about ghosts. Why do people believe in ghosts? There are…

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]]> https://allpsych.com/spooky-science-the-psychology-of-paranormal-beliefs/feed/ 1 Tracking People’s Fear of Death Over Time https://allpsych.com/tracking-peoples-fear-of-death-over-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tracking-peoples-fear-of-death-over-time Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:05:52 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1641 How do people’s experiences in life shape their expectations surrounding death? One way of shedding light on that question is by following how people’s fear of death changes over time. Some researchers have hypothesized that people become gradually more fearless about death as they get older. This idea makes a certain intuitive sense: as we…

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