Christmas in the year that wasn’t
THIS HAS been a most unusual year.
The Christmas season, for all the glad tidings of comfort and joy it always brings, came like an...
Covid-19 vaccine may be the best Christmas gift
SEVENTEEN days before Christmas, all is calm, and all is bright already for 90-year-old Margaret Keenan—the first patient in the world to receive a...
When journalists take the side of liars
Presenting facts and their context through the discipline of verification is among a journalist’s long list of duties. So when “journalists” resort to transcription...
Malacañang and misogyny, DepEd and miseducation
President Duterte displayed again his vicious misogyny and terrorist language when he lashed out at Vice President Leni Robredo for upstaging him in coming...
‘Tatay Digong’ should stop playing favorites
LIKE A parent who plays favorites, President Duterte’s government continues to neglect the needs of healthcare workers and favor the military and police, his...
What does it mean to be God’s stewards?
After typhoons “Rolly,” “Quinta" and “Ulysses” ravaged Luzon, leaving some parts of Metro Manila, Rizal and Cagayan submerged in roof-level floods, it brought a sense...
Anti-terrorism law is anti-Muslim, anti-Filipino
HOW DARE a non-Muslim defend the anti-terror law and cite the alleged peace in Mindanao as having been occasioned by the law when countless...
No to the return of capital punishment
The gun itself is neither evil nor good.
Much like most inanimate objects, the loaded gun is good orevil depending on its use by the...
I became more Dominican by being a Varsitarian
“TRUTH,” according to that strange Dominican mystic Meister Eckhart, “is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep...
Communication and creativity
Becoming part of the art section of the Varsitarian and eventually becoming its editor have made me realize that media and the arts are...
APLICATIONS
The psychology of fear among Filipino ‘thrill-seekers’
FROM spiders to heights to ghouls and goblins, science deconstructed fear as a mixture of chemicals designed to ensure our survival.
However, fear maybe just a tip of a psychological iceberg. It stems from a need to help the human body respond to dangerous situations.
Rosalito De Guzman, M.D., a professor from the College of Science, explained that aside from being a natural occurrence, fear also helps a person detect threats.
Referred to as the “fight or flight reaction,” fear is provoked by threats that urge a person to decide whether or not they should “fight” the fearful situation or “flee” from it.
