{"id":35604,"date":"2017-03-26T05:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T12:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/people-afraid-of-robots-much-more-likely-to-fear-losing-their-jobs-suffer-anxiety"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:43:08","slug":"people-afraid-of-robots-much-more-likely-to-fear-losing-their-jobs-suffer-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/people-afraid-of-robots-much-more-likely-to-fear-losing-their-jobs-suffer-anxiety","title":{"rendered":"People afraid of robots much more likely to fear losing their jobs, suffer anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/people-afraid-of-robots-much-more-likely-to-fear-losing-their-jobs-suffer-anxiety2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnophobes\u201d\u2014people who fear robots, artificial intelligence and new technology that they don\u2019t understand\u2014are much more likely to be afraid of losing their jobs to technology and to suffer anxiety-related mental health issues, a Baylor University study found.<\/p>\n<p>More than a third of those in the study fit its definition of \u201ctechnophobe\u201d and are more fearful of automation that could lead to job displacement than they are of potentially threatening or dangerous circumstances such as romantic rejection, public speaking and police brutality, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re afraid of losing your job to a robot, you\u2019re not alone,\u201d said researcher Paul McClure, a sociologist in Baylor\u2019s College of Arts &amp; Sciences. \u201cThis is a real concern among a substantial portion of the American population. They are not simply a subgroup of generally fearful people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017-03-people-robots-jobs-anxiety.html\">https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;03-people-robots-jobs-anxiety.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTechnophobes\u201d\u2014people who fear robots, artificial intelligence and new technology that they don\u2019t understand\u2014are much more likely to be afraid of losing their jobs to technology and to suffer anxiety-related mental health issues, a Baylor University study found. More than a third of those in the study fit its definition of \u201ctechnophobe\u201d and are more fearful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48387,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604\/revisions\/48387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}