Social Distancing & Mask-Wearing in Response to Covid-19: How Conflicting Physical and Social Threats Compete to Influence Behavior

Mask-wearing and social distancing can mitigate the physical threat of COVID-19 but at a social cost (e.g., social judgment). We investigate how people make this tradeoff across two experiments. Our findings have important theoretical implications for classic models of protective behavior and substantive implications for health-related marketing communications.



Citation:

Julie Schiro and Lauren Min (2021) ,"Social Distancing & Mask-Wearing in Response to Covid-19: How Conflicting Physical and Social Threats Compete to Influence Behavior", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 926-926.

Authors

Julie Schiro, University College Dublin
Lauren Min, University of Kansas



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021



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