Descriptive norms caused increases in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic

SL Heiman, S Claessens, JD Ayers… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Human sociality is governed by two types of social norms: injunctive norms, which prescribe
what people ought to do, and descriptive norms, which reflect what people actually do. The …

Purpose in the pandemic: Fear of COVID-19, hopelessness, meaning in life, and suicidal thoughts among two samples of Black Americans.

JR Goodwill - American Psychologist, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The mental health experiences of Black Americans remain understudied in existing COVID-
19 research. While several vital reports highlight disparate physical health outcomes—and …

Black in the pandemic: Comparing experiences of mistrust, anxiety, and the COVID-19 vaccine among Black adults in the US

JR Goodwill, KJ Fike - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 vaccine decisions are shaped by many factors including historical and
contemporary patterns of medical mistreatment of marginalized communities. In attending to …

The health costs of political identity: evidence from the US during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Chopra, B Wydick - Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We estimate the impact of US political identity on COVID-19 safety behaviors, cases, and
deaths. Our data set merges US county-level data on mask-wearing, cell-phone mobility …

[HTML][HTML] Descriptive norms caused increases in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic

SL Heiman, S Claessens, JD Ayers, A Van Horn, E Hirt… - 2022 - europepmc.org
Human sociality is governed by two types of social norms: injunctive norms, which prescribe
what people ought to do, and descriptive norms, which reflect what people actually do. The …