Simpson Rylan, Sandrin Ryan
School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia Canada.
J Exp Criminol. 2022;18(2):297-319. doi: 10.1007/s11292-020-09451-w. Epub 2021 Jan 9.
To experimentally evaluate the effects of personal protective equipment (PPE) on participants' perceptions of police during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the experimental paradigm, participants were randomly assigned to read a fictitious news article about the utility of PPE (i.e., pro-PPE, anti-PPE, or neutral), and then rate images of a police officer using different items of PPE (i.e., masks, goggles, face shields, and/or medical gloves) along eight dimensions.
The analyses reveal that participants overwhelmingly perceived the use of PPE as both important and beneficial, regardless of condition. The analyses also reveal that the use of PPE impacted perceptions of the pictured officer, but that the specific perceptual effects of such PPE varied by the item used.
Police worldwide have attempted to reduce the risks associated with COVID-19 by using PPE. In addition to functional benefits, many items of PPE also present perceptual benefits.
通过实验评估个人防护装备（PPE）对新冠疫情期间参与者对警察看法的影响。
作为实验范式的一部分，参与者被随机分配阅读一篇关于PPE效用的虚构新闻文章（即支持PPE、反对PPE或中立），然后沿着八个维度对一名警察使用不同PPE物品（即口罩、护目镜、面罩和/或医用手套）的图像进行评分。
分析表明，无论处于何种条件下，参与者绝大多数都认为使用PPE既重要又有益。分析还表明，PPE的使用影响了对照片中警察的看法，但此类PPE的具体感知效果因所使用的物品而异。
全球警察都试图通过使用PPE来降低与新冠病毒相关的风险。除了功能上的益处外，许多PPE物品还具有感知上的益处。
