Collier Trevor, Cotten Stephen, Roush Justin
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.
University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX.
J Behav Exp Econ. 2022 Sep 9:101938. doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2022.101938.
We test whether laboratory measures of individual preferences for risk and guilt relate to risk-connected behaviors in a pandemic, such as socializing, dining in at restaurants, and hand washing. We utilize a survey administrated to a nationally representative subject pool in the United States in April, 2020 - the month following the declaration of a national state of emergency in response to the global outbreak of COVID-19. We find that higher levels of risk aversion are associated with risk-reducing behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, we do not find strong evidence that guilt relates to the same behavior.
我们测试了个体对风险和内疚的偏好的实验室测量结果是否与大流行期间的风险相关行为有关，例如社交、在餐馆就餐和洗手。我们利用了2020年4月在美国对全国代表性受试者群体进行的一项调查——这是在宣布因全球新冠疫情爆发而进入国家紧急状态后的那个月。我们发现，在新冠疫情期间，较高水平的风险厌恶与降低风险的行为相关。同时，我们没有找到有力证据表明内疚与同样的行为有关。
