How have we made decisions about handling Covid-19? Did they take account of trade-offs to individual welfare, or were they prone to narrative bias? Amanda Henwood (LSE) discusses a recent report written with Paul Dolan (LSE) which introduces a new framework - the ABCDE of decision-making - to alert decision-makers to the narrative traps that influence their decisions, including in high-risk situations such as the pandemic.

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31 August 2021

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LSE Covid-19

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2021/08/31/narrative-traps-how-can-we-avoid-them-in-making-decisions-about-covid/

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