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AnSionnachRua  ·  4220 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What 150 of the world's smartest people are worried about.

    51. That we will worry too much. –Joseph LeDoux, neuroscientist
    76. That we worry too much. –Joel Gold, psychiatrist
    82. That we worry too much. –Gary Klein, scientist at MacroCognition
    89. That we worry too much. –Donald D. Hoffman, cognitive scientist
    92. That we worry too much. –Brian Knutson, associate professor of psychology
    95. That we worry too much, but about fictional violence. –Jonathan Gottschall, English professor
    116. That we worry too much. –Virginia Heffernan, Yahoo News correspondent
    128. That we worry too much. –James J. O’Donnell, classical scholar
    129. That we worry too much. –Robert Provine, neuroscientist
    146. That we worry too much, and “package our worries” in a deleterious fashion. –Mary Catherine Bateson, professor emerita
It looks like anyone studying the cognitive or the psychological is actually pretty worried about worry. At first I thought they were just making the same tired joke; perhaps there's more to it.

And then an English professor and a Yahoo Correspondent are tagging along.

Yahoo still exists?