Taming Black Swans: Societal Psychology of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Future Global Crises. In M. Tripathy (Ed.)
Résumé
Black swans are a metaphor for low-probability and high-impact events
that are unpredictable, and tend to shape history. The 21st century
extraordinary societal situations, such as the major collective upheaval that
represents the global COVID-19 pandemic, irrevocably shatter the common
people’s universe. These global crises, characterized primarily by unprecedent
complexity, pervasive layers of uncertainty and numerous misleading patterns
elicit temporal breakdown in the course of individuals’ existences that lead to
cognitive, emotional and behavioral shutdowns and disturbances. Therefore,
human beings and societies tend to deploy various adaptive coping
mechanisms to overcome these challenging circumstances. The loss of usual
stable benchmarks and related transcendental damages caused to people and
societies should be analysed by relevant and holistic multilevel approach
proposed by societal social psychology. Indeed, the current chapter highlights
the importance of multilevel analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and other
global crises, situated at four different levels, ranging from intra-personal to
ideological levels of analysis. The primary importance of the multilevel
analysis is to better seize “domino effects” of cascading consequences of
global crises that allow to develop related strategic multilevel crisis
management which is crucial for more resilient human beings and societies
facing future uncertain times.
Domaines
Sciences de l'Homme et Société
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