automatic response

Having sacked about 80% of former Twitter staff following his takeover, Mr Musk announced last year that requests to X's media department would be met with an automatic response: a poo emoji.

"This points to the idea that whilst humans may be primed by evolution to expect the best, those high on cognitive ability are more able to override this automatic response when it comes to important decisions. Plans based on overly optimistic beliefs make for poor decisions and are bound to deliver worse outcomes than would realistic beliefs," Dr Dawson added.

“There was no muscle memory. There was no automatic response. There was panic,” he said.

The group, Abeja Negra SOS, was born in 2018 when Velíz — a veterinarian working for the city government at the time — noticed that when authorities received calls about beehives, the automatic response was to exterminate the bees.

East Asians show no such spontaneous or automatic response.