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?:abstract
  • Behavioural responses to pandemics are less shaped by actual mortality or hospitalisation risks than they are by risk attitudes. We explore human mobility patterns as a measure of behavioural responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results indicate that risk-taking attitudes are a critical factor in predicting reductions in human mobility and social confinement around the globe. We find that the sharp decline in mobility after the WHO (World Health Organization) declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic can be attributed to risk attitudes. Our results suggest that regions with risk-averse attitudes are more likely to adjust their behavioural activity in response to the declaration of a pandemic even before official government lockdowns. Further understanding of the basis of responses to epidemics, e.g., precautionary behaviour, will help improve the containment of the spread of the virus.
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?:arxiv_id
  • 2006.06078
?:creator
?:doi
  • 10.1038/s41598-020-76763-2
?:doi
?:journal
  • Sci_Rep
?:license
  • cc-by
?:pdf_json_files
  • document_parses/pdf_json/5a8bd34e8b68cc3f74defb1743d46e7ad3e5b4dc.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7669857.xml.json
?:pmcid
?:pmid
?:pmid
  • 33199737.0
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?:sha_id
?:source
  • ArXiv; Medline; PMC
?:title
  • Risk attitudes and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic
?:type
?:year
  • 2020-11-16

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