Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics
Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Pandemic: A disease outbreak that spreads across the world.
- Exponential Growth: Growth that occurs when a value increases in proportion to its current value.
- Exponential Growth Prediction Bias: An error in prediction that occurs when people underestimate how quickly numbers rise in an exponential system.
- Optimism Bias: An error that occurs when people underestimate their personal likelihood of experiencing a negative event.
- Hyperbolic Time Discounting Bias: An error that occurs when people choose smaller rewards in the present over larger awards in the future.
- Reactance Psychology: An unpleasant motivational state that occurs when a freedom is threatened with elimination.
- Individualism: The principle of being independent and self-reliant.
- Collectivism: The principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.
- Disinformation: Deliberately false information designed to deceive.
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