Why We Grow Numb To Staggering Statistics — And What We Can Do About It
The growing coronavirus death toll doesn't provoke the same type of emotional response that a plane crash might. It's a coping mechanism and how our neurons are wired, says psychologist Elke Weber.
COVID-19 has now killed more than 148,000 people in the U.S. On a typical day in the past week, more than 1,000 people died.
But the deluge of grim statistics can dull our collective sense of outrage. And part of that has to do with how humans are built to perceive the world.
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