Danger

Our Quest for Excitement

By: Michael J. Apter

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Paperback | 1 May 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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?

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.

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.

An intellectual tour de force, Danger throws light on a critically important but often neglected force of human nature and culture.

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-- Newspaper Article 'This is a scream' on the slides in the Tate mentions Danger: Our Quest For Excitement and quotes Michael Apter.-- "The Times"

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Non-Fiction Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Popular Psychology Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Clinical Psychology

Preface	p. ix
Playing with Fire	p. 1
The Protective Frame	p. 13
Danger's Delight	p. 36
Into the Safety Zone	p. 53
On the Sidelines	p. 64
How People Differ	p. 80
Getting Turned On	p. 93
Fueling the Flames	p. 111
The Fallacious Frame	p. 125
Crime and its Pleasures	p. 145
The Glamor of War	p. 164
Risk, Rebellion, and Change	p. 186
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 231
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