Loss aversion fails to replicate in the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from an online experiment

Loss aversion is a foundational bias and is a natural choice for interventions encouraging compliance during COVID-19. We compare the effectiveness of loss and gain messages and find no difference in the intention to comply with guidance or lockdown beliefs.

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Autores principales: Sanders, Michael, Stockdale, Emma, Hume, Susannah, John, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7377995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32836579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109433
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spelling pubmed-73779952020-07-24 Loss aversion fails to replicate in the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from an online experiment Sanders, Michael Stockdale, Emma Hume, Susannah John, Peter Econ Lett Article Loss aversion is a foundational bias and is a natural choice for interventions encouraging compliance during COVID-19. We compare the effectiveness of loss and gain messages and find no difference in the intention to comply with guidance or lockdown beliefs. Elsevier B.V. 2021-02 2020-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7377995/ /pubmed/32836579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109433 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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