Fear and Decision-Making: Insights from Freakonomics

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Fear takes control of people´s lives everyday. Whether it be by death or the possible things that could cause death. Author´s of the book, Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner had written this book to further explain theories or simply how people logically handle certain situations. They even include how fear is an incentive that can affect people´s behavior. Levitt and Dubner represent their information by using rhetorical devices such as anecdote, inferences, paradox, and visuals. Let us dig deep inside their minds and prove that. To start off with people are often more afraid when they´re not in control. They compare their safety driving a car versus being flown in an airplane. Levitt and Dubner explain that ¨their thinking goes

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