New psychology research shows people consistently underestimate how often things go wrong across society

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  UNDERestimate? Is this The Onion? No matter how darkly pessimistic I get, society outpaces me every time, I have no chance to keep up!

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “things go wrong”??

  Tf? Do they overestimate how bad the vibes are too?

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• Barbuzie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  UNDERESTIMATE??? So things are even worse than we think they are??

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  • searabbit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Probably not “we” unless you fall into the WEIRD demographic and don’t fully support leftists politics. At least thats my interpretation.

    When participants learned the true prevalence of failures, they became less supportive of harsh punitive measures, such as strict disciplinary actions or mass incarceration, and more supportive of policy changes aimed at addressing underlying problems. In workplace and policy contexts, increased awareness of failure rates also reduced stigma and encouraged more supportive practices, such as extending parental leave.

    One limitation is that the failure gap may depend on context and culture; because most participants came from Western, educated populations, it remains unclear whether the same pattern generalizes globally.

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    • Barbuzie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, well, we are on Lemmy…I feel most of the users here fall into the demographics you call weird. Surely I feel like I do.

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• phonics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Na can’t be that often.

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