Human nature can steer people away from new things – and that can blind them to novel threats
- Written by Sam Hunter, Professor of Organizational Psychology, University of Nebraska Omaha
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There’s a military aphorism that generals are always fighting the last war. It’s a natural human tendency to focus on the kinds of threats you’re used to while playing down the likelihood or importance of some new sort of attack.
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