Face masks increase compliance with physical distancing recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic

AbstractGovernments across the world have implemented restrictive policies to slow the spread of COVID-19. Recommended face mask use has been a controversially discussed policy, among others, due to potential adverse effects on physical distancing. Using a randomized field experiment (N = 300), we show that individuals kept a significantly larger distance from someone wearing a face mask than from an unmasked person during the early days of the pandemic. According to an additional survey experiment (N = 456) conducted at the time, masked individuals were not perceived as being more infectious than unmasked ones, but they were believed to prefer more distancing. This result suggests that wearing a mask served as a social signal that led others to increase the distance they kept. Our findings provide evidence against the claim that mask use creates a false sense of security that would negatively affect physical distancing. Furthermore, our results suggest that behavior has informational content that may be affected by policies.

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“Disinfection tunnels (DT): potentially counterproductive in the context of a prolonged pandemic” (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.19445 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Manisha Biswal ◽

RImjhim Kanaujia ◽

Archana Angrup ◽

Shubh Mohan Singh ◽

Pallab Ray

Keyword(s):

Environmental Impact ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Current Evidence ◽

Scarce Resources ◽

Run Off ◽

Sense Of Security ◽

The World ◽

False Sense

UNSTRUCTURED There have been a lot of confidence-building measures rapidly instituted in the current COVID-19 pandemic without any scientific evidence to back them up. Foremost among these measures is the so-called “Disinfection tunnel”. DT are likely to be a wasteful expenditure of scarce resources. As they are ad-hoc structures, that environmental impact in the form of run-off disposal is a matter of extreme importance. WHO has condemned the use of these sprays and tunnels and has released an advisory. As we have seen views and comments and data from the world. We want to present our perspective on the basis of current evidence present regarding DT that are mushrooming in cities providing a false sense of security that it will contain this virus and prevent further spread.

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Save this Honorable Court: Shaping Public Perceptions of the Supreme Court Off the Bench

Political Research Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1065912918801563 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 72 (3) ◽

pp. 686-699 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Christopher N. Krewson

Keyword(s):

Field Experiment ◽

Supreme Court ◽

News Coverage ◽

Public Perceptions ◽

Judicial Behavior ◽

Survey Experiment ◽

Institutional Loyalty ◽

Randomized Field Experiment ◽

New Perspective ◽

Change Beliefs

Scholars believe that justices on the U.S. Supreme Court strategically respond to—but rarely shape—public opinion. This article provides a new perspective on judicial behavior. Looking “off the bench,” I find evidence that justices actively shape perceptions of the Court through their public speeches. In particular, I employed a randomized field experiment and a randomized survey experiment to analyze the causal effects of attending a speech and reading about it in the news. For the field experiment, I assigned law students with reservations to a public speech by Justice Sotomayor to take a survey just before or just after the event. For the separate survey experiment, I assigned individuals in a treatment group to read news coverage of the speech before responding to survey questions. I find that, among attendees, justices improve their own favorability and change beliefs about the importance of law in judicial decision making. Among those who read of the speech, justices also change perceptions of the politicization of the Court and strengthen institutional loyalty. These findings have important implications for our understanding of judicial behavior and public perceptions of the Court.

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APA Journals Article Spotlight: Does Video Recording Interrogations Inhibit Crime Suspects? Answers From a Fully Randomized Field Experiment

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e505622019-001 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Field Experiment ◽

Video Recording ◽

Randomized Field Experiment

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Love, Inc.

10.1525/california/9780520295018.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laurie Essig

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Structural Changes ◽

Global Climate ◽

Dating Apps ◽

Sense Of Security ◽

True Love ◽

The Future ◽

False Sense ◽

Global Movements

In Love, Inc., Laurie Essig argues that love is not all we need. As the future became less secure—with global climate change and the transfer of wealth to the few—Americans became more romantic. Romance is not just what lovers do but also what lovers learn through ideology. As an ideology, romance allowed us to privatize our futures, to imagine ourselves as safe and secure tomorrow if only we could find our "one true love" today. But the fairy dust of romance blinded us to what we really need: global movements and structural changes. By traveling through dating apps and spectacular engagements, white weddings and Disney honeymoons, Essig shows us how romance was sold to us and why we bought it. Love, Inc. seduced so many of us into a false sense of security, but it also, paradoxically, gives us hope in hopeless times. This book explores the struggle between our inner cynics and our inner romantic.

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CZY ZALEWA NAS FALA PRZEMOCY? POLITYCY I MEDIA VS. DANE STATYSTYCZNE

Civitas et Lex ◽

10.31648/cetl.1939 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Katarzyna Hamer ◽

Hanna Hamet

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

United Nations ◽

Psychological Mechanisms ◽

Police Data ◽

Sense Of Security ◽

The World ◽

The United Nations ◽

Drugs And Crime

By detailed analyses of Polish and world statistics, the authors search for the answer if in fact,as some politicians and citizens claim, the world and in particular European Union and Polandare overcome by the wave of violence. Data gathered, among others, by Polish Public OpinionResearch Center (CBOS), Eurostat and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNOCD), aswell as anthropologists and police, clearly prove the opposite. Scientific comparisons concerningviolence over the centuries show that its scale drastically decreased and the world gets saferwith time. Statistical reports of the United Nations especially clearly indicate European Union(including Poland) as particularly peaceful region against the rest of the world, having the lowestmurder rates. Eurostat data confirm these results, also showing decrease in other crimes overthe years. Polish police data similarly prove existence of this trend and CBOS indicates thatit is reflected in increasing sense of security among Poles. In the second part of the article theauthors explain potential reasons for using such false slogans as “increasing wave of violence” bypoliticians and raising fear in voters as well as psychological mechanisms responsible for theirpotential effectiveness.

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