Manipulating risk of infection and appeal to public benefit increase compliance with infection control measures in a hypothetical pandemic scenario.

To limit an infectious outbreak, the public must be informed about the infection risk and be motivated to comply with infection control measures. Perceiving a situation as threatening and seeing benefits to complying may be necessary to motivate for compliance. The current study used a preregistered...

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Main Authors: Sebastian Bjørkheim, Bjørn Sætrevik
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.0274024