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Something You Should Know

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The Traps of Panic: Understanding Poor Decision-Making Under Stress

This chapter examines how cognitive biases and decision-making errors are magnified during stressful situations. It uses a pilot's critical moment as a case study to illustrate how evolutionary psychology influences our reactions, often leading to misjudgments in contemporary scenarios.

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