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risk perception

Entries tagged with risk perception - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

4 concepts

Affect Heuristic

When your feelings about something shape what you believe to be true about it.

Ignoring general statistical information in favour of specific but less reliable details about an individual case.

The tendency for negative experiences, information, and emotions to affect us more strongly than positive ones.

The tendency to underestimate the likelihood and impact of a disaster or major disruption because things have always been fine before.