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Behavioral Responses to Epidemics in an Online Experiment: Using Virtual Diseases to Study Human Behavior

We report the results of a study we conducted using a simple multiplayer online game that simulates the spread of an infectious disease through a population composed of the players. We use our virtual epidemics game to examine how people respond to epidemics. The analysis shows that people's be...

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Autores principales: Chen, Frederick, Griffith, Amanda, Cottrell, Allin, Wong, Yue-Ling
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3541346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052814