The Psychology Underlying Biased Forecasts of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States
| Autor: | Hersh Shefrin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 11 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.590594 |
| Popis: | This paper discusses the impact of a series of psychological phenomena on the U.S. response to COVID-19, focusing on forecasts of cases and deaths. The specific phenomena comprise unrealistic optimism bias, overconfidence, anchoring and adjustment, representativeness, motivated reasoning, and groupthink. |
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