Responses to COVID-19 threats: An evolutionary psychological analysis.

• Main Authors: COLARELLI, Stephen M., MIRANDO, Tyler J., HAN, Kyunghee, LI, Norman P., VESPI, Carter, KLEIN, Katherine A., FALES, Charles P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: COVID-19; Mismatch; Decision-making; Individual differences; Behavioral immune system; Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Health Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3730; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4988/viewcontent/s40806_022_00348_7.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Responses to COVID-19 public health interventions have been lukewarm. For example, only 64% of the US population has received at least two vaccinations. Because most public health interventions require people to behave in ways that are evolutionarily novel, evolutionary psychological theory and rese...