Denying to the Grave Quotes

“social amplification of risk,”
― Sara E Gorman, Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us

“Research has established, however, that despite the fact that benefit and risk are most often positively correlated, they are negatively correlated in our minds. For most people, the greater the perceived benefit, the lower the perceived risk, and the lower the perceived benefit, the greater the perceived risk.36”
― Sara E Gorman, Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us

“the notion that we do not have knowledge of something until we know its cause.”
― Sara E Gorman, Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us

“Next they showed that strong activation in the amygdala, a relatively more primitive part of the brain associated with emotional memory, was associated with lower likelihood of participants changing their minds back to the truth even when they were informed that the answers provided by their “peers” were fabricated. Strong amygdala activation correlated with strong activation of the hippocampus, an adjacent brain structure that stores memories but was inversely correlated with activity in the PFC.”
― Sara E Gorman, Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us

“those who have relatively few moral scruples about conspiring may be less likely to think that others would be deterred from conspiring, at least on moral grounds.”
― Sara E Gorman, Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us