How fear distorts our thinking about the Coronavirus

This article shows that our minds behave irrationally because of our emotions.

Based on Tversky and Kahneman's research and the author's own experiments, the article shows that emotion-induced bias make matters worse and spread fear.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/opinion/international-world/coronavirus-fear.html

Dr. David DeSteno is a social psychologist and professor of psychology at the Northeastern University. He frequently writes in major publications like The New York Times, The Atlantic and Harvard Business Review.