Dread = Uncontrollability + Unfamiliarity + Imaginability + Suffering + Scale of Destruction + Unfairness
source: The Unthinkable: who survives when disaster strikes and why by Amanda Ripley
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2 comments:
And what's the formula for hope?
I don't know. I suspect in this context (thinking about getting caught up in a disaster)the opposite of dread would be absence-of-worry.
Driving your car is riskier than flying in a big commercial airliner, right? But driving gives you the feeling of control, it's familiar, comfortable, small scale, etc. Airliners? Not so familiar, not so comfortable, and totally beyond your control.
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