Panic is bad if you're in an evolutionarily novel emergency (like losing your mask when scuba-diving 30 meters down) where reason should over-ride instinct. But our ancestors faced infectious diseases for millions of years. Contagion-induced panic might often be adaptive.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1236665501754904576 …
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I think the problem is the terminology Fear (as you noted) is an adaptive emotion that signals threat, which enables us to take steps to mitigate that threat (fight, flight, prep, etc) Panic implies an uncontrolled reaction that's incapable or ineffective at mitigating threat
Yep. 'Panic' is often the post-hoc label slapped onto 'fear' that proved to be a false alarm.
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I really doubt we would have evolved any propensity to 'panic' if it wasn't the optimal response under at least some high-risk circumstances.
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I am trying to think of a context in which the tendency to accumulate a large quantity of bog tissue confers a survival advantage. Perhaps it is a sort of displacement activity.
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Exactly. If the current outbreak resolves without serious problems, people in the future will say "remember the coronavirus panic?" as a way to denigrate sensible risk mitigation. These people don't understand risk ...
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no only just sadly getting started, US i believe now likely follow Italy, lets hope not China... expect worse to come sadly..
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I thought 'panic' referred to this phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack …
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