Don't get it or don't spread it: Comparing self-interested versus prosocial motivations for COVID-19 prevention behaviors

JJ Jordan, E Yoeli, DG Rand - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
COVID-19 prevention behaviors may be seen as self-interested or prosocial. Using
American samples from MTurk and Prolific (total n= 6850), we investigated which framing is …

[HTML][HTML] Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

P Campos-Mercade, AN Meier, FH Schneider… - Journal of public …, 2021 - Elsevier
Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases.
However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from …

Socially optimal mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 mortality risk perceptions and prosocial behavior

M Abel, T Byker, J Carpenter - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of
experiments to explore how people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications …

Evaluating prosocial COVID-19 messaging frames: Evidence from a field study on Facebook

S Banker, J Park - Judgment and Decision Making, 2020 - cambridge.org
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has emphasized the need for effective health
communications to coordinate individual behavior and mitigate disease transmission …

Message framing effects on individuals' social distancing and helping behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

M Ceylan, C Hayran - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This research responds to urgent calls to fill knowledge gaps on COVID-19 (new
coronavirus) in communicating social distancing messages to the public in the most …

Political orientation and adherence to social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

PN Barbieri, B Bonini - Economia politica, 2021 - Springer
Many governments have implemented social distancing and lockdown measures to curb the
spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Using province-level geolocation data from …

Effective but fragile? Responses to repeated nudge-based messages for preventing the spread of COVID-19 infection

S Sasaki, H Kurokawa, F Ohtake - The Japanese Economic Review, 2021 - Springer
Nudge-based messages have been employed in various countries to encourage voluntary
contact-avoidance and infection-prevention behaviors to control the spread of COVID-19 …

The effect of norm-based messages on reading and understanding COVID-19 pandemic response governmental rules

E Bilancini, L Boncinelli, V Capraro, T Celadin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) threatens the lives of millions of people around
the world, making it the largest health threat in recent times. Billions of people around the …

Texts don't nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India

G Bahety, S Bauhoff, D Patel, J Potter - Journal of Development Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We conduct an adaptive randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a SMS-based
information campaign on the adoption of social distancing and handwashing in rural Bihar …

Behavioral brittleness: The case for strategic behavioral public policy

R Schmidt, K Stenger - Behavioural Public Policy, 2024 - cambridge.org
Despite widespread recognition that behavioral public policy (BPP) needs to move beyond
nudging if the field is to achieve more significant impact, problem-solving approaches …