I wasn't going to share this, because frankly it's not that interesting, but then I got to number 42:
That Americans are homogenizing and exporting their view of a normal mind around the world. –P. Murali Doraiswamy, professor of psychiatry
And it reminded me extremely of this, one of the most interesting things I've read lately. It's a completely valid fear, much more practical than half the other things mentioned -- but you won't hear about it in America.
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AnSionnachRua: 51. That we will worry too much. –Joseph LeDoux, neuroscientist
76. That we worry too much. –Joel Gold, psychiatrist
82. That we worry too much. –Gary Klein, scientist at MacroCognition
89. That we worry too much. –Donald D. Hoffman, cognitive scientist
92. That we worry too much. –Brian Knutson, associate professor of psychology
95. That we worry too much, but about fictional violence. –Jonathan Gottschall, English professor
116. That we worry too much. –Virginia Heffernan, Yahoo News correspondent
128. That we worry too much. –James J. O’Donnell, classical scholar
129. That we worry too much. –Robert Provine, neuroscientist
146. That we worry too much, and “package our worries” in a deleterious fashion. –Mary Catherine Bateson, professor emerita
It looks like anyone studying the cognitive or the psychological is actually pretty worried about worry. At first I thought they were just making the same tired joke; perhaps there's more to it.And then an English professor and a Yahoo Correspondent are tagging along.
Yahoo still exists?