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See also Humankind by Rutger Bregman, which also explores the huge difference between our impressions that people are selfish, unfriendly and unpredictable, and the reality that they aren't like that at all.

It opens with 2 scenarios that over many years have been put to new students at Groningen University - one of a plane crash in which passengers panic and just try to save themselves, and another in which people stay calm, and help others before themselves. 97% say the first, selfish scenario is more likely - but the truth is that in real air emergencies "in almost every case" people behave responsably and selflessly.