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The Blue Dot Effect: Why Things Always Seem Worse Than They Are
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The Blue Dot Effect and Perceived Threats
This chapter explores a study demonstrating how people redefine concepts like blue dots, threatening faces, and moral violations as occurrences decrease. It delves into the negativity bias in media reporting, the concept of 'safetyism,' and the prevalence induced concept change influencing perceptions of negative events like police brutality. The discussion touches on human tendencies to seek out problems for a sense of meaning, the psychological immune system, and the struggle to adapt to lower frequencies of problems.
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