{"id":18528,"date":"2020-07-20T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/in-the-media\/overcoming-psychological-biases-is-the-best-treatment-against-covid-19-yet\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T15:31:08","slug":"overcoming-psychological-biases-is-the-best-treatment-against-covid-19-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/in-the-media\/overcoming-psychological-biases-is-the-best-treatment-against-covid-19-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Psychological Biases Is the Best Treatment against COVID-19 Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"h5\" style=\"color: #33475b;\">Scientific American, 20.07.2020 | Lydia Denworth<\/h3>\r\n&#8220;In responding to the pandemic, society may be hampered by cognitive and political beliefs that distort judgments and lead to irrational decisions [&#8230;] Dutch political psychologist Joris Lammers of the University of Cologne in Germany had previously been studying responses to climate change, where he recognized people\u2019s 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 <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA<\/i> that showed the same problem in the pandemic. [&#8230;] Our cognitive and political biases intersect. \u201cPeople are more susceptible to biases if they fit their own political narrative,\u201d Lammers says.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American, 20.07.2020 | Lydia Denworth &#8220;In responding to the pandemic, society may be hampered by cognitive and political beliefs \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-the-media","post_format-post-format-link","years-491","person-lammers-joris-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c-seb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}