Underweighting of rare events in social interactions and its implications to the design of voluntary health applications
Research on small repeated decisions from experience suggests that 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 prob...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021-03-01
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Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/20/201217/jdm201217.pdf |