Culture of Fear Revisited: Risk-Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation

By F. Füredi. 2006

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Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology (2016, background): “…& Satel, 2005) or medicalization (Frances, 2013), the expansion of abuse and trauma to an emerging “culture of fear” that is preoccupied with risk (Furedi, 2006), and the expansion of prejudice to “political correctness,” the fact that similar expansions of meaning occur across these…”
Silenced by fear:: The nature, sources, and consequences of fear at work (2009, background): “Some have even argued that we exist in a ‘‘culture of fear’’ (e.g., Furedi, 2002, 2006; Glassner, 1999; Shlapentokh, 2006; Stearns & Haggerty, 1991) studded with warnings about terrorism, international conflict, weakening economies, global warming, crime, infectious disease, and other types of…”