The transmission game: Testing behavioral interventions in a pandemic-like simulation.

ABSTRACT: During pandemics, effective nonpharmaceutical interventions encourage people to adjust their behavior in fast-changing environments in which exponential dynamics aggravate the conflict between the individual benefits of risk-taking and its social costs. Policy-makers need to know which interventions are most likely to promote socially advantageous behaviors. We designed a tool for initial evaluations of the effectiveness of large-scale interventions, the transmission game framework, which integrates simulations of outbreak dynamics into large-group experiments with monetary stakes. In two studies (n = 700), we found substantial differences in the effectiveness of five behavioral interventions. A simple injunctive-norms message proved most effective, followed by two interventions boo

SUBMITTER: Woike JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8880790 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature