Probability Discounting in College Students' Willingness to Isolate During COVID-19: Implications for Behavior Analysis and Public Health.
The present study was a preliminary analysis of college students' willingness to self-isolate and socially isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic analyzed through a probability discounting framework. Researchers developed a pandemic likelihood discounting task where willingness to isolate from others...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Record Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 713 - 726 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2022
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