Climate change is a great social challenge. The scientific world agrees that human activity plays a major role in these changes instead of creating more sustainable behaviors. People travel farther using a ‘sustainable’ vehicle, eat ‘organic’ food to be environmentally friendly without reducing the other consumption. The scientists believe cognitive biases and cognitive inabilities to understand climate change issues properly play a major role in causing such environmental damage behavior. Similarly, the current global health crisis requires significant behavior change and has a massive psychological impact on people. In 2020, Bavel et al. (2) studied the pandemic effect on a different aspect of human cognitive function, including handling threats, social and cultural effect on human behavior, social information, moral-decision making, and coping with stress. The study also correlates the COVID-19 pandemic with outcomes such as ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and crowding perceptions. To view the full article visit Globe Newswire.
