What Americans Fear Most, Reasons to Marry, Drone Ethics

What Americans Fear Most, Reasons to Marry, Drone Ethics

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 5, Episode 13

  • Jan 15, 2016 2:00 pm
  • 2:09:02 mins

What Americans Fear Most (11:20) Dr. L. Edward Day is an Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Sociology at Chapman University and the Director of the Earl Babbie Research Center in Orange, California. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington in 1992. A criminologist by training, he has a special fondness for cross-disciplinary research. Dr. Day shares his research into What Americans Fear Most and how knowledge of that fear can help in the creation of public policy. Five Reasons Not to Get Married and Why They're All Wrong (1:05:40) Dr. Brian Willoughby is an assistant professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. Dr. Willoughby is also the Director of the RELATE Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to studying and improving romantic relationships. Dr. Willoughby's research focuses on young adult dating and relationship patterns. Dr. Willoughby's specific expertise areas include dating, sexuality, cohabitation, marriage formation, and marital attitudes/beliefs. Dr. Wolloughby talks with Dr. Townsend about reasons given to not get married and how they are incorrect. Drone Ethics (1:38:04) Dr. Avery Holton and Dr. Sean Lawson, who created “Drones and Society”, a curriculum at the University of Utah that aims to help students “explore the ways that drones are being imagined and made real” The courses also discuss the moral, ethical and legal issues brought on by drones technology. They are here to tells us more about their program and what we can expect to see in the future of drone regulation.