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Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Campos-Mercade, Pol, Meier, Armando N., Schneider, Florian H., Wengström, Erik·2021·Journal of Public Economics

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Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases. However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from prosocial motivations as a driver of behaviors that impact the health of others. In an incentivized study, we show that a large majority of people are very reluctant to put others at risk for their personal benefit. Moreover, this experimental measure of prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, measured in a separate and ostensibly unrelated study with the same people. Prosocial individuals are more likely to follow physical distancing guidelines, stay home when sick, and buy face masks. We also find that prosociality measured two years before the pandemic predicts health behaviors during the pandemic. Our findings indicate that prosociality is a stable, long-term predictor of policy-relevant behaviors, suggesting that the impact of policies on a population may depend on the degree of prosociality.

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Authors: Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A. N., Schneider, F. H., & Wengström, E.
Affiliations: University of Basel (CH)
University of Zurich (CH)
Lund University (SE)
Corresponding author: Schneider, Florian H.
ORCID: Meier, Armando N.
Schneider, Florian H.
Wengström, Erik
Venue: Journal of Public Economics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2021-03
Volume: 195
Pages: 104367
ISSN: 0047-2727 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104367
PMC: PMC7842154
OpenAlex: W3026358667
Cited by: 242
References: 107
Citations by year: 2026: 10 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 48 · 2022: 63 · 2021: 56
FWCI: 61.27
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
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Licence: cc-by
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Locations: Journal of Public Economics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
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SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (publishedVersion)
edoc (University of Basel) (acceptedVersion)
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Funders: Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (DNRF134)
Torsten Söderbergs Stiftelse
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (100018_185176, P2BSP1_181847)
Universität Zürich
Universität Basel
Københavns Universitet
University of Chicago
Topics: Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › COVID-19 Prevention and Impact
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Keywords: prosocial behavior, COVID-19 pandemic, health behavior, social distancing, masking, socially responsible behavior, disease transmission, behavioral stability, public health policy

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