Beijing Review

A DEADLY COCKTAIL

The author is a researcher in emotion and media psychology and a guest professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law

After the novel coronavirus outbreak, we have new viruses—panic as an emotional virus and the media. You need to look at the other two viruses at the same time too.

The world seems to have drunk a cocktail of viruses that has thrown it considerably out of

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