1. How epidemic information and policy information impact anti-infection behaviors: a cross-cultural study under social influence framing.
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Ye, Zi, Long, Feiteng, Gao, Jiaqi, Zheng, Hao, and Meng, Xingxing
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INFORMATION policy , *SOCIAL influence , *CROSS-cultural studies , *EPIDEMICS , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Three preregistered experiments examined to what extent information about an epidemic situation provided by experts and information about anti-infection policies promoted by governments/media influenced anti-infection behaviors. The above effects were examined among populations from different countries (in Experiments 2 and 3) and across self-construals (in Experiment 3). In three experiments, participants (N =706) were presented with a scenario where experts provided (or did not provide) information about an epidemic situation and governments/media promoted (or did not promote) information about anti-infection policies. After that, participants indicated their willingness to adopt anti-infection behaviors. Results across three experiments showed that both types of information independently increased participants' anti-infection behaviors. In Experiments 2 and 3, we further found that the epidemic information had a larger impact on inducing anti-infection behaviors than the policy information, which was robust and consistent across countries and self-construals. Findings were discussed under the framework of social influence and in terms of practical implications for pandemic situations like the COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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