Seen and not seen: How people judge ambiguous behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: How do we judge others' behavior when they are both seen and not seen-when we observe their behavior but not the underlying traits or history that moderate the perceived riskiness of their behavior? We investigate this question in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: How people make sense of, and judge, vaccination-contingent behaviors-behaviors, such as going to the gym or a bar, which are considered to be more or less risky and appropriate, depending on the target's vaccination status. While decision theoretic models suggest that these judgments should depend on the probability that the target is vaccinated (e.g., the positivity of judgments should increase linearly with the probability of vaccination), in a large-scale pre-registered experiment (N = 936) we find th

SUBMITTER: Molnar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9743130 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature