{"id":2194,"date":"2017-06-19T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2017-06-19T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:19:47","slug":"this-is-your-brain-on-terrorism-vox-20-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2017\/06\/19\/this-is-your-brain-on-terrorism-vox-20-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"This is your brain on terrorism | Vox, 20 March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, explains that exposure to sensationalized news coverage exploits the brain\u2019s tendency to prioritize stories over statistics. \u201cNews, by definition, is something that almost never happens,\u201d Schneier says. \u201cBut that\u2019s not how our brain works. If it\u2019s in the news, if it\u2019s talked about, if we hear about it a lot, we confuse that with it being common.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/videos\/2017\/3\/20\/14982174\/strikethrough-brain-terrorism-media-coverage-overreact\">This is your brain on terrorism &#8211; Vox<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, explains that exposure to sensationalized news coverage exploits the brain\u2019s tendency to prioritize stories over statistics. \u201cNews, by definition, is something that almost never happens,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2017\/06\/19\/this-is-your-brain-on-terrorism-vox-20-march-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}