A man wearing a mask crosses a road in Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on February 24. Photo: Reuters
Letters | Coronavirus crisis: lessons from moral psychology on why the blame game is the wrong way to go
- Research has shown people are more likely to attribute intention and assign blame when things go wrong. However, the coronavirus outbreak is a ‘problem of many hands’ for which it is difficult to hold any individual or group responsible
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A man wearing a mask crosses a road in Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on February 24. Photo: Reuters