Fisher, Robert M.2020-06-172020-06-172020-06-13Fisher, R. M. (2020). Fear is no longer just a factor: Fearism as a new force-field vector in social science research. pp. 1-18.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112200https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37934There’s something gone stale with the common rhetoric around our species’ understanding of fear (and ‘fear’). We require a 21st-century radical up-grade of our critical literacy and fear management capacities on this domain of existence. A fresh idea about fear(ism) or fearism that emerged in the early 1990s (Fisher) and late 1990s (Subba) is pushing researchers to revision their ways of seeing how fear is not merely a factor in human affairs—rather, it is a potent means for sociological measure and typologies for human behavior. Fear is now, in the form of fearism, a force-field vector, which is beginning to be used in some latest innovative social research. This raises the bar in the evolutionary development of methodologies of knowledge. Fearism, with this new application, and further transdisciplinary applications ought to carry the world into a better understanding of the phenomenon of fear(ism). The purpose of such improvement in our critical literacy is to emancipate ourselves from the excessive domination of a culture of fear based in toxic fearism (or, what the author recently calls fearism-t).engUnless otherwise indicated, this material is protected by copyright and has been made available with authorization from the copyright owner. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.force-field analysis, fearism, fear, transdisciplinary, human behavior analysistechnical report