ArticleCommunications psychology2025
Unhealthy behaviours in disaster survivors are associated with scarcity and present bias.
Article in Communications psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Smoking after the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes: Smoking-related environmental conditions and psychological dependence in temporary shelter sites.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The psychology of health.Communications psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Extant research suggests that disaster exposure may induce unhealthy behavior, such as smoking, drinking, and eating disorder symptoms in survivors; however, the underlying the mechanisms of such behavior remain unclear. Using two field experiments in two separate disaster-affected communities in Japan (N = 337) and the Philippines (N = 187), this study found that scarcity and reinforced present-bias were associated with disaster experiences and unhealthy behavior in both locations. These experiments were conducted twice (i.e., 2-3 years and 6 years post-disaster), allowing us to examine the enduring impact of these disasters. Disaster survivors became consistently present-biased, which in turn explains variance in individuals' health-related decisions, such as body mass index, smoking, and drinking.
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