It might be spooky season but Americans are much more afraid of corruption, nuclear war, and money problems than ghosts and zombies, according to a survey by Chapman University.
Topping the list again this year was the fear of corrupt government officials, according to the annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears, produced by the Earl Babbie Research Center at the college in Orange, California.
“Fear of corrupt government officials has remained the greatest fear for yet another year since first landing in the spot in 2015,” the university reported on its blog.
This fear, however, has dropped steeply from 79.6 percent in the 2020–2021 survey, to 62.1 percent this year, which is the lowest since 2016….