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Avoiding Millennialist Cognitive Biases

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Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008
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This lecture outlines a typology of the pancultural millennial phenomena, describes characteristic cognitive biases and suggests how contemporary forms of secular techno-utopian and techno-apocalyptic discourse reflect these types of millennial psychology

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Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008
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James Hughes
Keywords
global threats
global risks
disasters
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 08/12/2008
Duration: 00:30:43

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