Cry Wolf¶
Breznitz, S. (1984). Cry Wolf: The Psychology of False Alarms.
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5 citations across 5 artifacts.
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Mechanisms¶
- Launch-or-Hold Gate
- A gate with too high a threshold becomes a chronic hold — the commander who never orders evacuation until it is too late — while a too-eager gate cries wolf
This sourceDevelops the false-alarm or “cry wolf” effect, in which false alarms reduce the credibility of a warning system.
- A gate with too high a threshold becomes a chronic hold — the commander who never orders evacuation until it is too late — while a too-eager gate cries wolf
- Public False-Alarm Explainer
- That resolve is the cry-wolf effect, and it is what gets people killed later.
This sourceIdentifies the resolve as the cry-wolf effect and warns that it can have lethal later consequences.
- That resolve is the cry-wolf effect, and it is what gets people killed later.
- Signal/Noise Review Board
- Over a year, the highest tier — "take protective action now" — has crept onto increasingly marginal events, and survey feedback shows residents beginning to swipe the alerts away, the early edge of the cry-wolf effect.
This sourceExplains the cry-wolf effect as erosion of warning credibility and protective response after false alarms.
- Over a year, the highest tier — "take protective action now" — has crept onto increasingly marginal events, and survey feedback shows residents beginning to swipe the alerts away, the early edge of the cry-wolf effect.
- Synchronized Refresh Cadence
- Set the interval too tight or the depth too shallow and the refresh becomes noise the audience learns to dismiss — the cry-wolf effect
This sourceDescribes the cry-wolf effect as credibility loss and reduced response following repeated false alarms.
- Set the interval too tight or the depth too shallow and the refresh becomes noise the audience learns to dismiss — the cry-wolf effect
- Threshold-Triggered Anomaly Highlight
- Set the gate too loose and it fires on noise; the operators habituate, and you get alarm fatigue and the cry-wolf collapse where the real event arrives to an audience that has learned to ignore the alarm.
This sourceDocuments the cry-wolf effect: repeated false alarms reduce alarm credibility and responsiveness to a subsequent genuine alarm.
- Set the gate too loose and it fires on noise; the operators habituate, and you get alarm fatigue and the cry-wolf collapse where the real event arrives to an audience that has learned to ignore the alarm.
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