Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics

07/07/2025 3 min
Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics

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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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