What Is The Scariest Thing?

2019-10-24

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Everyone is scared of something ... but what's the SCARIEST thing? Is it even possible to answer such a question? In this special I explore the dark recesses of the mind to learn how fears are born and whether there exists a grand, unifying terror.

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INDEX

0:00 Intro

02:37 Fear Conditioning

06:03 Amygdala and Hippocampus

06:49 Innate Aversions

07:39 The Web of Fear

08:38 Fear of Death

10:30 Informational Learning/Storytelling

12:02 Nomophobia

12:48 Isolation

15:25 Fear of the Dark

17:36 Fear of Sounds

17:58 Auditory Cortex, Thalamus, and Amygdalae

19:41 Dissonance

22:00 Law of Contagion

23:23 Piloerection Reflex

24:49 Distorted Forms

27:14 Vicarious Learning/Social Fear Transmission

30:05 Innate Aversions

31:14 Category Jamming

35:04 Patient SM, Non-Functioning Amygdalae

36:44 Suffocation

37:54 Midbrain, Brain Stem