ABSTRACT
Does local partisan context influence the adoption of prosocial behavior? Using a nationwide survey of 60,000 adults and geographic data on over 180 million registered voters, we investigate whether neighborhood partisan composition affects a publicly observable and politicized behavior: wearing a mask. We find that Republicans are less likely to wear masks in public as the share of Republicans in their zip codes increases. Democratic mask wearing, however, is unaffected by local partisan context. Consequently, the partisan gap in mask wearing is largest in Republican neighborhoods, and less apparent in Democratic areas. These effects are distinct from other contextual effects such as variations in neighborhood race, income, or education. In contrast, partisan context has significantly reduced influence on unobservable public health recommendations like COVID-19 vaccination and no influence on nonpoliticized behaviors like flu vaccination, suggesting that differences in mask wearing reflect the publicly observable and politicized nature of the behavior instead of underlying differences in dispositions toward medical care.
Subject(s)
Altruism , COVID-19 , Masks , Politics , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19/prevention & control , COVID-19 Vaccines , Humans , Mass Behavior , United States , Vaccination/psychologySubject(s)
Communicable Disease Control/methods , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Pandemics/prevention & control , Personal Space , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , Social Isolation , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Humans , Mass Behavior , SARS-CoV-2Subject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Crowding , Mass Behavior , Risk Evaluation and Mitigation , Mass GatheringsSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Crowding , Mass Behavior , Risk Evaluation and Mitigation , Mass GatheringsSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Crowding , Mass Behavior , Risk Evaluation and Mitigation , Mass GatheringsSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Mass Gatherings , Mass Behavior , CrowdingSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Crowding , Mass Behavior , Risk Evaluation and MitigationABSTRACT
Мероприятия – это события, для которых характерна концентрация людей в определенном месте с конкретной целью в течение установленного периода времени (1).Мероприятия могут быть общественными или частными, запланированными или спонтанными, периодическими или разовыми, различного масштаба и продолжительности. Они также могут носить различный характер и включают в себя, среди прочего, социальные, спортивные, религиозные, культурные, развлекательные, политические и деловые события, а также кампании по охране здоровья.Мероприятия с большим числом участников обычно называют «массовыми мероприятиями». К массовым мероприятия также относятся такие важные события, как Олимпийские игры, хадж, Всемирная выставка; они часто подразумевают осуществление международных пассажирских перевозок, наличие нескольких площадок, длительный срок проведения, широкое освещение в СМИ, а также существенные последствия для репутации, политической, социальной и экономической жизни общества
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COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Crowding , Mass Behavior , Risk Evaluation and MitigationSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Crowding , Mass Behavior , Risk Evaluation and MitigationSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Crowding , Mass Behavior , Risk Evaluation and MitigationSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Mass Behavior , Crowding , Religion , Islam , Pandemics , GuidelineSubject(s)
COVID-19 , Betacoronavirus , Disease Outbreaks , Mass Behavior , Crowding , Religion , Islam , Pandemics , GuidelineABSTRACT
Anti-intellectualism (the generalized distrust of experts and intellectuals) is an important concept in explaining the public's engagement with advice from scientists and experts. We ask whether it has shaped the mass public's response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We provide evidence of a consistent connection between anti-intellectualism and COVID-19 risk perceptions, social distancing, mask usage, misperceptions and information acquisition using a representative survey of 27,615 Canadians conducted from March to July 2020. We exploit a panel component of our design (N = 4,910) to strongly link anti-intellectualism and within-respondent change in mask usage. Finally, we provide experimental evidence of anti-intellectualism's importance in information search behaviour with two conjoint studies (N ~ 2,500) that show that preferences for COVID-19 news and COVID-19 information from experts dissipate among respondents with higher levels of anti-intellectual sentiment. Anti-intellectualism poses a fundamental challenge in maintaining and increasing public compliance with expert-guided COVID-19 health directives.