TY - JOUR
AU - Ye, Zi
AU - Long, Feiteng
AU - Gao, Jiaqi
AU - Zheng, Hao
AU - Meng, Xingxing
PY - 2022
DA - July
TI - How epidemic information and policy information impact anti-infection behaviors: A cross-cultural study under social influence framing
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
EP - 446
VL - 164
IS - 4
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2022.2095967
AB - 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.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/d7d0f73b-67b0-481e-81de-7a97bdc089d5
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER