ArticleSocial sciences & humanities open2021
Moral decisions in the age of COVID-19: Your choices really matter.
Article in Social sciences & humanities open, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- The role of perceived risk on dishonest decision making during a pandemic.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2024Article
- Social Media Application as a New Paradigm for Business Communication: The Role of COVID-19 Knowledge, Social Distancing, and Preventive Attitudes.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small and medium-sized enterprises performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Intention-Based Critical Factors Affecting Willingness to Adopt Novel Coronavirus Prevention in Pakistan: Implications for Future Pandemics.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Moral decision-making and support for safety procedures amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Personality and individual differences · 2021Article
- "… It is like it has come up and stole our lives from us" The first 21 days: A rapid qualitative assessment of how different sectors of society experienced the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa.Social sciences & humanities open · 2021Article
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Abstract
The moral decisions we make during this period, such as deciding whether to comply with quarantine rules, have unprecedented societal effects. We simulate the "escape from Milan" that occurred on March 7th-8th 2020, when many travelers moved from a high-risk zone (Milan) to southern regions of Italy (Campania and Lazio) immediately after an imminent lockdown was announced. Our simulations show that fewer than 50 active cases might have caused the sudden spread of the virus observed afterwards in these regions. The surprising influence of the actions of few individuals on societal dynamics challenges our cognitive expectations - as in normal conditions, collective dynamics are rather robust to the decisions of few "cheaters". This situation therefore requires novel educational strategies that increase our awareness and understanding of the unprecedented effects of our individual moral decisions.
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