National Public Radio Language Analysis

National Public Radio did a segment on the emotion of fear. This segment was separated into two sections: how the modern world causes us to having necessary fear and the story of the women who experiences no fear. This radio piece started off with a researcher named Roger Hart. Hart was a psychologist in the 1970s that studied children’s behavior in natural settings. He set to figure out what children do when they are alone. He began by moving to a small town in Vermont to track children’s daily activities. He began his study by documenting everywhere children went by themselves within a day’s length. He asked children to show him what the dangerous places were, the scary places, and the places they were not supposed to go. He gathered all the information from the children and put together maps that would measure the distance each child was allowed to go by themselves and the average age of the …show more content…
Emotions support our survival, but in the case of the women with no fear her emotions did not support her survival. Not only is this women surviving without the fear of emotions she has no bodily responses. Emotions consists of three components: physical, behavioral, conscious experience. Our physical response is when our heart rate rises, but in the case of the women with no fear she had no physical response. Additionally, SM had no behavioral response. For example, when she was holding the dangerous snake, she did not let go of the snake and continued to play with it. Finally, SM had no conscious response. No thought ever crossed her mind that she should fear or be scared of a certain object, for example a snake. The first half of the segment focused on parents becoming fearful of the modern world. Fear focuses our attention on certain issues and this causes particular items to be more prevalent in our minds. This affects our behavior and causes us to restrain our children’s