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How the Psychology of Pandemic Behavior Can Help Guide Containment Strategies

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KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Why do some people embrace masks and practice meticulous social distancing while others rebel against public health mandates? Psychologists are studying what drives behavior in the pandemic, and they're also looking at how information overload can influence how people react to the crisis. In this hour, psychologists Ellen Peters and Jay Van Bavel join us to lay out how social and behavioral science can help explain how people respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and how that information can help guide public policy messaging around containment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED. From KQED. From KQED, We are bombarded with news and numbers every day about the

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coronavirus pandemic. To what extent does that information help us make more rational choices versus

1:35.2

creating needless worry? And when it comes to following guidelines such as mask wearing, what roles do

1:41.0

morality and partisanship play in changes of our behavior?

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For psychologists, understanding how and why people act the way they do

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in a crisis can help public health officials optimize their work.

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And coming up, we'll talk with two scientists at the forefront of this research.

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That's next after this news. News. Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. Why do some people embrace masks and practice meticulous

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social distancing while others rebel against public health mandates?

2:21.3

Psychologists are studying what drives behavior during the pandemic, and they're also looking at how information overload influences how people react to the crisis.

2:29.8

In this hour, psychologists Ellen Peters and Jay Van Bayel will join us to lay out how social and

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