• ISBN13: 9781851684816
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Oneworld Publication
• Publisher Imprint: Oneworld P
• Publication Date: October 16, 2006
• Pages: 239
• Original Price: GBP 9.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 277 grams

About the Book Why do we slow down to look at car accidents? Why would rich people shoplift? What draws people to parachuting, military service, and sadistic sex? <p/> These are just some of the questions this book unravels in its investigation of our paradoxical liking of danger. Using the concept of a 'protective frame', drawn from Reversal Theory, Danger: Our Love of Living on the Edge explains how, even in dangerous situations (often because of them ) anxiety becomes excitement and fear, exhilaration--transforming the horrifying into the heavenly. <p/> Examining different kinds of protective frames and how they affect our behaviour, as well as how they are institutionalized in our culture, this book explores how excitement-seeking can lead to disaster for ourselves or others, how it opens us to manipulation--but also how it can be uniquely creative and life-enhancing. <p/> An intellectual tour de force, Danger throws light on a critically important but often neglected force of human nature and culture.