Browsing Tag: Fear

Heart disease drug 'combats racism'

A common heart disease drug may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study suggests.
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'I Am Singh' is not 'My Name is Khan'

"Sikhs were mistaken to be Arabs in the post 9/11 scenario and beaten up. Doesn't this sound bizarre? I mean Sikhs and Arabs are as different as chalk and cheese. And that is what I have attempted to show in this film. It talks about the turban issue."
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Our polarized politics is because of 9/11

As time goes by and the memory of danger and death grows fainter, however, “morality salience” tends to polarize people politically, leading them to cling to their own beliefs and demonize others who hold opposing beliefs—seeing in them the cause of their own endangerment.
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Fear - How do I stop being afraid?

...sometimes I don't know how to just stop being afraid. Is there something I can do to help with this?"
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Fear of Death is Unfounded

But belief has never been a foundation stone and nor will it ever be, thus experience of life after death is the only way to create a certainty about it.
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Study suggests "turban effect" as a source of "Islamophobia"

A Muslim-style turban is perceived as a threat, according to a new study, even by people who don't realize they hold the prejudice, dubbed "the turban effect" by researchers.
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