Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics

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Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.

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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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Joris Lammers, Jan Crusius, and Anne Gast. (2020). Correcting misperceptions of exponential coronavirus growth increases support for social distancing.PNAS. 117:8. Retrieved from:

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Finally, my natural Pessimism Bias has a purpose 😅

braincraft

Title: Four reasons our brains suck at Pandemics

my brain: my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

megaball-pstq

MinuteEarth: "our biased brains underestimate the risk"
Nagito Komaeda: "HUH?"

diegoostoja-kowalski

You should think pessimistically.
My anxiety: it's my time

XXSQUIDGLEYXX

1:25 Maya being in the background is way too accurate.

kanwersingh

0:57 Was not expecting to see Nagito in a Minute Earth video

cookiedawg

woah, i didn't know there is a word for me not wanting to do the dishes when i'm being told to :o

kr

There's something so funny about the fact that the average person thinks they are above average.

WanderTheNomad

I laughed really hard at the part where the US is considered a place egoistic people. Sadly, it is the truth...

dembajalloh

Day 4 of asking minuteEarth for a HenryStickmin references

manypixelsyt

I have some clips of Minute Earth in my homeschool program, so I am so glad I finnaly found out it was a YouTube channel!

rain

"I use the Brain to fight the brain"

omlett

Crucially its also a tradegy of the commons problem, especially for low infection numbers. If the risk of individual infection is low for the moment, then the behavior of one single individual has little impact on their situation. But if just half the population acts carelessly, then we get a terrible outbreak later and everyone suffers.

moartems