We found that dissonance participants complied more with guidelines and were more likely to seek vaccination than participants in three non-dissonance control conditions. We conclude by recommending ways of implementing the findings in the current COVID-19 crisis....
There arethree key cognitive biaseswe have witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic: 1.Action bias People often believe actions tend to solve (COVID-19) problems. When various world leaders gave national addresses to allay people's fear of "food shortages," some people started to panic buy. D...
The value of internet-based delivery has been underscored, even in the context of MBIs [17], and their beneficial effects have been demonstrated during the COVID-19 crisis [18,19,20]. This digital approach offers several advantages, including cost effectiveness, scalability and enhanced ...
In line with our hypothesis, it became clear that the COVID-19 period had a significant impact on older adults. We observed a significant decrease in wellbeing, activity level and sleep quality during the COVID-19 period as compared to before COVID-19. This is not in line with the first...
"The pandemic is a scam" – conspiracy theories are booming in times of crisis. Credit: The Blowup, unsplash Conspiracy theories appear to be increasing in popularity as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. But to what extent do people really agree with them, and what is the association with ...
2,6 The recognition that the sequelae of COVID-19 represent a persistent public health crisis prompted a National Academy of Medicine effort to refine post–COVID-19 condition definitions and substantial investment from the US government to understand mechanisms and develop treatments for post–COVID...
Throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, recommended protective behaviors have undergone dynamic shifts in response to the evolving landscape of the crisis. The early response leaned heavily on government mandates, compelling individuals to adhere to public health measures, such as physical ...
Addressing the Cognition Crisis in Our COVID-19 World Erin Smith;Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, ScD;Mark Bellgrove, PhD;Ian Robertson, PhD;Jessica Wolfe, PhD, MPH;Hannah Kirk, PhD, NHMRC;Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS;Harris A. Eyre, MD, PhD ...
Public health interventions for COVID-19: Emerging evidence and implications for an evolving public health crisis JAMA, 323 (2020), pp. 1908-1909 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar 5 Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet [COVID-19] Press conference by the prime minister regarding the decla...
[1], highlighting the importance of context-dependency. In social media persuasion research, both emotional cues and rational appeals in the original message have been found to influence the decisions of other users to engage with it [2–3]. Thus, the affective–cognitive orientation of messages...