“a psychological phenomenon in which people have a tendency to underestimate the likelihood or impact of a disaster or other crisis.”
On a day to day basis, the practical manifestation of normalcy bias is to believe that tomorrow will be like today—that things will stay “normal.” The opposite is called worse-case-scenario bias, whose meanin…
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