Alix Spiegel And Lulu Miller Analysis

In this podcast with Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller I found it interesting that Roger Hart was the first environmental psychologist to study children in natural settings. Hart followed 86 children in his study and asked them to bring him to some dangerous places. In the study Hart realized how far the children brought him and was surprised by how well they knew about their local town. Hart then links up with these same children 35 years later and asks them to show him where they use to play when they were growing up. Surprisingly they would just show him their backyard. Hearing stories constantly about children being abducted, murders and rape has instilled an ample amount of fear in today's parents.

Spiegel also introduces SM in the podcast who is unable to feel the emotion of fear. Only 400 people on earth have been found to not feel fear. This unique disease is called Urbach-Wiethe disease. …show more content…
In SM's situation an individual who uses logic really has no need for the emotion of fear. In situations of survival fear can be beneficial but this need is not often needed on a daily basis throughout our lives so fear is not essential to our existence.

While listening to the podcast I noticed the the same techniques used on SM were from the experiment that involved Little Albert. They made loud horn sounds to instill fear in SM, but it didn't have an affect on her in the study. Overall this article overlapped with the past lectures we had in class, that fear is not essential to life and explained how fear can change a simple act as how children play in a local town over a time