Coping with crisis: The paradox of technology and consumer vulnerability

SF Yap, Y Xu, LP Tan - International Journal of Consumer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic has created unprecedented disruptions in consumers' daily lives.
Regulations imposing social distancing, quarantine and full‐scale lockdowns have …

A 50-year review of psychological reactance theory: Do not read this article.

BD Rosenberg, JT Siegel - Motivation Science, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychological reactance theory (PRT; Brehm, 1966) posits that when something threatens or
eliminates people's freedom of behavior, they experience psychological reactance, a …

Negative attitudes about facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic: The dual importance of perceived ineffectiveness and psychological reactance

S Taylor, GJG Asmundson - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This study reports a comprehensive empirical investigation of the nature and correlates of
anti-mask attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Accumulating evidence underscores the …

Commentary: physiological and psychological impact of face mask usage during the COVID-19 pandemic

JL Scheid, SP Lupien, GS Ford, SL West - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this commentary, we discuss the physiological effects of wearing masks for prolonged
periods of time, including special considerations, such as mask wearing among those who …

COVID-19-related conspiracy beliefs and their relationship with perceived stress and pre-existing conspiracy beliefs

N Georgiou, P Delfabbro, R Balzan - Personality and individual differences, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous studies have down that erroneous Conspiracy Theory (CT) beliefs develop more
strongly in people who have underlying conspiratorial reasoning styles and …

[HTML][HTML] Motivational interviewing: an evidence-based approach for use in medical practice

G Bischof, A Bischof, HJ Rumpf - Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Motivational factors in health-relevant modes of behavior are an important
matter in medical practice. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a technique that has been …

Behavioral and psychosocial factors associated with COVID-19 skepticism in the United States

CA Latkin, L Dayton, M Moran, JC Strickland… - Current …, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19 skepticism can be conceptualized as the denial of the seriousness of the illness
and the perception that the pandemic is overblown or a hoax. In the current study, we …

Can nudges be transparent and yet effective?

H Bruns, E Kantorowicz-Reznichenko… - Journal of Economic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nudges receive growing attention as an effective concept to alter people's decisions without
significantly changing economic incentives or limiting options. However, being often very …

Sustainable agriculture and its implementation gap—Overcoming obstacles to implementation

N Siebrecht - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
There are numerous studies and publications about sustainable agriculture. Many papers
argue that sustainable agriculture is necessary, and analyze how this goal could be …

Anxiety disorders, COVID-19 fear, and vaccine hesitancy

A McNeil, C Purdon - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of the COVID-19 vaccines unfolded in real-time, lending a sense that
they were developed more rapidly than other vaccines. Long-term data on their safety and …