31. Cognitive biases based on the idea:
ÒIt is too bad to be trueÓ or ÒIt couldn't happen to meÓ
It
is easy to imagine someone else's car wrecked, but much more difficult to
imagine the future fragments of your own car. It is easy to imagine someone
else getting shot and killed, but harder to imagine yourself being shot and
bleeding out. Bad thoughts aren't fun to think about. Even discussing them is
associated with low social status. Instead of dealing with challenges to our
existence, it is much easier to just ignore them and pretend they will never
happen.