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From a false sense of safety to resilience under uncertainty

2023-11-29

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<p>Understanding and acting upon risk is notably challenging. For instance, loss aversion has traditionally been viewed as merely a cognitive bias, but it can be interpreted as an evolutionarily advantageous heuristic for humans to avoid sudden ruin. The challenging nature of rare and highly impactful events, such as novel pathogens, may lead to underestimation of potential damages and the framing of precautions a...

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Literature Corpus work: c01d2e60-8678-5735-bfd7-832b0891012c
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/a5ysh

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