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In battling the coronavirus, will 'optimistic bias' be our undoing?

  • Written by Marie Helweg-Larsen, Professor of Psychology, the Glenn E. & Mary Line Todd Chair in the Social Sciences, Dickinson College
In battling the coronavirus, will 'optimistic bias' be our undoing?Unless danger is flashing before us, we view risks through rose-colored glasses.slavemotion/iStock via Getty Images

As the coronavirus has fanned across the globe, some people have been more complacent about the risk of contracting the virus than others.

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