Emotional responses to prosocial messages increase willingness to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Emotion Extraversion Neuroticism Persuasion Public health messaging Response efficacy

Journal

Personality and individual differences
ISSN: 0191-8869
Titre abrégé: Pers Individ Dif
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8006972

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
15 Feb 2021
Historique:
received: 04 07 2020
revised: 19 09 2020
accepted: 27 09 2020
entrez: 21 10 2020
pubmed: 22 10 2020
medline: 22 10 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The COVID-19 pandemic may be one of the greatest modern societal challenges that requires widespread collective action and cooperation. While a handful of actions can help reduce pathogen transmission, one critical behavior is to self-isolate. Public health messages often use persuasive language to change attitudes and behaviors, which can evoke a wide range of negative and positive emotional responses. In a U.S. representative sample (

Identifiants

pubmed: 33082614
doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110420
pii: S0191-8869(20)30611-5
pmc: PMC7561320
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

110420

Informations de copyright

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no competing or conflict of interests.

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Auteurs

Joseph Heffner (J)

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States of America.

Marc-Lluís Vives (ML)

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States of America.

Oriel FeldmanHall (O)

Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States of America.
Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States of America.

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