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Marie Helweg-Larsen, The Conversation

Optimistic bias: Why we think we are less likely than others to get coronavirus

Humans tend to downplay their own susceptibility to being harmed – an attitude of ‘it won’t happen to me’.

Marie Helweg-Larsen, The Conversation
· Mar 27, 2020 · 08:30 pm
Move over, ‘hygge’. The word the world really needs to combat stress is Danish, and it is ‘pyt’

There is no exact English translation, but there exists a rich strain of psychological research devoted to its benefits in everyday life.

Marie Helweg-Larsen, The Conversation
· Mar 14, 2019 · 08:30 am