Risk perception, illusory superiority and personal responsibility during COVID‐19: An experimental study of attitudes to staying home.
Little is known about how different government communication strategies may systematically affect people's attitudes to staying home or going out during the COVID‐19 pandemic, nor how people perceive and process the risk of viral transmission in different scenarios. In this study, we report results...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 113; no. 3; pp. 608 - 630 |
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