Trading-off health safety, civil liberties, and unemployment based on communication strategies: the social dilemma in fighting pandemics.

ABSTRACT: Crisis management often requires decisions that prioritize the collective good over individual interests. Effective crisis communication strategies can influence individuals' behavior towards the collective good, preventing negative societal externalities. However, little is known about how these strategies affect individual acceptance of decisions that involve trade-offs between individual and collective interests. We study individual choice behavior regarding maintaining or lifting government-imposed restrictions on private and public life in a referendum setting in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining or lifting the restrictive measures represents a social dilemma that involves trade-offs between civil liberties, health safety, and economic consequences. In three online exp

SUBMITTER: Veseli B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11875376 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature