Government corruption tops the list of 88 possible fears and anxieties that people were asked about. The university questioned 1,541 people across the country.
Almost half of Americans say they fear cyberterrorism. They also fear having their online information tracked by the government and corporations.
The university survey grouped fear into 10 major categories. They include crime, personal anxieties and technology. They also include both man-made and natural disasters. The rest of the top 10 fears were corporate tracking personal information, terror attacks, biological warfare, identity theft, running out of money, and credit card fraud. In the end, people seem to be more afraid of man-made disasters than those nature gives us.
When it comes to natural disasters, the ones most-feared are pandemics not hurricanes or earthquakes. Fear of reptiles, like snakes, tops the list of personal anxieties. The main environmental concern is global warming.
When the subject is daily life, death is what people fear most.
