NORMALCY BIAS ..what does that mean? We or most Americans fall into this category. We think NOTHING will change our world. The normalcy bias, refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This may result in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It can result in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation. This, also, often entails the lessons of history being ignored either because of denial or a belief that it could never happen again.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:46:08 +0000
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