Normalcy Bias – Don’t Stick Your Head in the Sand

Normalcy Bias – Don’t Stick Your Head in the Sand

Complacency can get you killed. That’s sort of what normalcy bias boils down to, at least for the purposes of our discussion here. What is Normalcy Bias?The Danger of Normalcy BiasHow to Combat Normalcy Bias An article from Yale School of Medicine defines normalcy bias like this: “The normalcy bias describes our tendency to underestimate the possibility of disaster and believe that life will continue as normal, even in the face of significant th…