Complacency, panic, and the value of gentle rule enforcement in addressing pandemics

Erev, Ido; Plonsky, Ori; Roth, Yefim

doi:10.1038/s41562-020-00939-z

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“…There seems to be a wide range of differences among people concerning how dangerous a health threat the coronavirus pandemic actually is. As recent research shows ( Erev et al, 2020 ), on one hand, there are those who do not agree with the scientific and governmental census on the virus, think that they are invincible and who are, therefore, less likely to follow the recommended guidelines such as wearing masks and human distancing ( Freeman et al, 2020 ). Indeed, the pandemic has shown how compliance to recommended, and even required, rules and recommendations can become a major problem for policy makers ( Muller and Rau, 2021 ).…”

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Crowding in the time of COVID: Effects on rapport and shopping satisfaction

Eroğlu

Machleit

Neybert

2022

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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Crowding in the time of COVID: Effects on rapport and shopping satisfaction

Eroğlu

Machleit

Neybert

2022

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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“…Unfortunately, analysis of decisions from experience suggests people are unlikely to naturally adopt responsible behaviors in a pandemic, even if it is in their best interest to do so (Erev et al, 2020). This unfortunate prediction is consistent with evidence showing that, absent supervisory enforcement, workers often fail to engage in safe behaviors like using protective gear, even if they perceive the potential risk to be higher than it truly is (Zohar & Erev, 2007).…”

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Underweighting of rare events in social interactions and its implications to the design of voluntary health applications

Plonsky¹,

Roth²,

Erev³

2020

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Research on small decisions from experience suggests people often behave as if they underweight rare events and choose the options that are frequently better. In a pandemic, this tendency implies complacency and reckless behavior. Furthermore, behavioral contagion exacerbates this problem. We analyze two versions of a repeated social game (N = 116). In the first, people clearly preferred the dangerous reckless behavior that was better most of the time over the safer responsible behavior. In the second, we added a stochastically dominated alternative abstracting the use of an application that frequently saves time but sometimes has high costs. Most people chose this “irrelevant alternative”, making this the first clear demonstration of underweighting of rare events in fully described social games. These results were replicated fully in a conceptual replication (N = 196). We discuss public policies that can make the use of such applications better most of the time, thus helping them get traction and facilitate compliance with physical distancing guidelines.

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“…When the pandemic hit, the situation led to social media panic and fear mongering among the public due to misinformation and fake news, panic or mass buying of surgical masks, and bulk purchase of other essential supplies [ 50 , 51 ]. The interconnected impacts of COVID-19 call for collaboration among multiple stakeholders across disciplines to develop effective measures in curbing the impacts of the pandemic on society [ 52 ].…”

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Community-Based Monitoring in the New Normal: A Strategy for Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia

Khair

Lee

Mokhtar

2021

IJERPH

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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the global public health system and led to many deaths worldwide. COVID-19 is highly contagious and can be spread by symptomatic or asymptomatic individuals. As such, determining the risk of infection within a community is difficult. To mitigate the risk of the spread of COVID-19, the government of Malaysia implemented seven phases of the movement control order (MCO) from 18 March to 31 December 2020. However, the socioeconomic cost was substantial despite the effectiveness of the MCO in bringing down cases of infection. As noted by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the final criterion that should be met is community empowerment. In other words, community-based mitigation measures through which communities unite to contain the pandemic are essential before the completion of the vaccination program. As a measure for controlling the pandemic, mitigation strategies in the new normal should be feasible, practical, and acceptable to communities. In this paper, we present a deliberation of a set of community-based monitoring criteria to ensure health and well-being in communities, such as efficacy, technicality, feedback, and sustainability. The proposed criteria will be instrumental in developing community-based monitoring initiatives to achieve the desired goals in coping with the pandemic as well as in empowering communities to be part of the governance process.

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Complacency, panic, and the value of gentle rule enforcement in addressing pandemics

Cited by 37 publications

References 13 publications

Crowding in the time of COVID: Effects on rapport and shopping satisfaction

Crowding in the time of COVID: Effects on rapport and shopping satisfaction

Underweighting of rare events in social interactions and its implications to the design of voluntary health applications

Community-Based Monitoring in the New Normal: A Strategy for Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia

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