Description
Book SynopsisDrawing from psychology, journalism, and communication studies, The Psychology and Communication Behind Flight Anxiety: Afraid to Fly discusses how flight anxiety manifests in both healthy and unhealthy ways. Lindsay A. Harvell-Bowman analyzes decades of research and explores how journalists, aviation professionals, and the public can curb flight anxiety and create safer environments both in the air and on the ground. Scholars of communication, psychology, and journalism will find this book particularly interesting.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Foreword by Eric Wilson
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Flight Anxiety: Why Should we be Worried?
Chapter 2: Terror Management Theory: A Brief Background
Chapter 3: Similarities Between Flight Anxiety and Death Anxiety
Chapter 4: Terror Management Theory & Plane Crash Survivors
Chapter 5: Is the Media to Blame for an Anxious Flying Public?
Chapter 6: CNN & MH370: Journalism that Changed How Plane Incidents are Reported
Chapter 7: Fixing the Current Journalistic Model
Chapter 8: What can the Flying Public Do?
