The Conditional Effects of Authoritarianism on COVID-19 Pandemic Health Behaviors and Policy Preferences.

ABSTRACT: A large literature contends that conservatives differ from liberals in their dispositional sensitivity to threat and needs for social order and security. Thus, a puzzle emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic when American conservatives, despite their purported threat sensitivity, responded to the pandemic in ways that evinced little concern toward the risks posed by COVID-19. Threat tolerant liberals present an equally interesting case, having fervently masked, isolated, and advocated for stringent public health restrictions when facing down COVID-19. Why did so many Americans adopt health behaviors and policy preferences at odds with their dispositional orientations toward threat and needs for security during the COVID-19 pandemic? In this paper, I analyze three national surveys to evaluate

SUBMITTER: Ollerenshaw T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9568978 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature