Gambling on others' health: risky pro-social decision-making in the era of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals were asked to perform costly actions to reduce harm to strangers, even while the general population, including authorities and experts, grappled with the uncertainty surrounding thenovel virus. Many studies have examined health decision-making by experts, but the study of lay, non-expert, individual decision-making on a stranger's health has been left to the wayside, as ordinary citizens are usually not tasked with such decisions.

Methods

We sought to capture a snapshot of this specific choice behavior by administering two surveys to the general population in the spring of 2020, when much of the global community was subject to COVID-19-related restrictions, as well as uncertainty surrounding the virus. We p

SUBMITTER: Loued-Khenissi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11450482 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature