5 Cognitive Biases Behind Our Behavior in Times of Coronavirus
How our mind is responding to COVID-19
How can we plan for unprecedented disasters, if they have never happened before?
Who had thought that the illegal trade of an endangered animal species was going to lead to the lockdown of more than 3 billion people and more than 100.000 deaths, and counting, all around the world?
While the pandemic spread is not something that surprises scientists, no one would have been able to predict how, when, and what was going to cause the virus outbreak.
Despite our inability to predict today’s sanitary crisis, many of us have thought “we should have prepared better”, “I knew this could happen”, “We should have done this instead” or “this was the worst/best decision ever”.
When we look at our (or those from others) decisions retrospectively we get the impression that the right decision was easy to take. But, the thing is that making decisions is much harder than we think it is, especially in uncertain times, like the one…
