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Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics

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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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