How social learning shapes the efficacy of preventative health behaviors in an outbreak.

The global pandemic of COVID-19 revealed the dynamic heterogeneity in how individuals respond to infection risks, government orders, and community-specific social norms. Here we demonstrate how both individual observation and social learning are likely to shape behavioral, and therefore epidemiologi...

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Main Authors: Simon Carrignon, R Alexander Bentley, Matthew Silk, Nina H Fefferman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262505