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