The Chapman Survey of American Fears (CSAF) asks a representative national sample of Americans about more than 90 fears and related behaviors. The FEAR survey has been cited in over 1,000 print, broadcast and online media, including the New York Times, The Huffington Post, CBS This Morning, Yahoo News, NPR, Good Housekeeping, the Washington Post, USA Today, Rolling Stone, and TIME.
The Earl Babbie Research Center at Chapman University is dedicated to empowering students and faculty to conduct studies that address critical social, behavioral, economic, and environmental problems. The Center’s mission is to provide research support and instruction to students, faculty and the broader community, and to produce research that addresses global concerns including health disparities, human rights, social justice, peaceful solutions to social conflicts, and environmental sustainability. The Babbie Center includes four major research divisions: the Study of Population Health, the Study of Violence and Radicalization, the Study of Social Justice, and the Study of American Fears.