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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
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.

On March 21, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was apoplectic after photographs emerged of New Yorkers...

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