Politicizing mask-wearing: predicting the success of behavioral interventions among republicans and democrats in the U.S.

ABSTRACT: Scientists and policymakers seek to choose effective interventions that promote preventative health measures. We evaluated whether academics, behavioral science practitioners, and laypeople (N = 1034) were able to forecast the effectiveness of seven different messages compared to a baseline message for Republicans and Democrats separately. These messages were designed to nudge mask-wearing attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. When examining predictions across political parties, forecasters predicted larger effects than those observed for Democrats compared to Republicans and made more accurate predictions for Republicans compared to Democrats. These results are partly driven by a lack of nudge effects on Democrats, as reported in Gelfand et al. (J Exp Soc Psychol, 2021). Academics and pra

SUBMITTER: Dimant E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9082983 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature