In his e-mail to INQUIRER.net, Slovic defined psychic numbing as a lack of feelings for people in need of help or protection. Slovic said in his e-mail to INQUIRER.net that defiance of health protocols could be a manifestation of psychic numbing. “We need to fight this numbing by thinking of the individual lives beneath the surface of the statistics,” Slovic added. “If you’re already stressed out, the 200,000 statistic becomes just another thing,” the NatGeo article quoted Elke Weber, a Princeton University cognitive psychologist, as saying. “The COVID-19 pandemic shifted priorities,” the Ipsos statement quoted Marie Lee, Ipsos country manager for the Philippines, as saying.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 29, 2020 07:51 UTC