Scientific American, 20.07.2020 | Lydia Denworth

“In responding to the pandemic, society may be hampered by cognitive and political beliefs that distort judgments and lead to irrational decisions […] Dutch political psychologist Joris Lammers of the University of Cologne in Germany had previously been studying responses to climate change, where he recognized people’s inability to grasp the exponential growth of carbon dioxide emissions. In June Lammers and his colleagues published a set of three studies in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that showed the same problem in the pandemic. […] Our cognitive and political biases intersect. “People are more susceptible to biases if they fit their own political narrative,” Lammers says.”

Link to article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/overcoming-psychological-biases-is-the-best-treatment-against-covid-19-yet/