Using first-person narratives about healthcare workers and people who are incarcerated to motivate helping behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mary E. Andrews, Bradley D. Mattan, Keana Richards, Samantha L. Moore-Berg and Emily B. Falk

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 299, issue C

Abstract: Overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic requires large-scale cooperation and behavior change on an unprecedented scale. Individuals can help reduce the burden of the pandemic by participating in behaviors that benefit people whose life circumstances make them especially vulnerable.

Keywords: Message effects; Health disparities; Narrative transportation; Persuasion; Prosocial; Pandemic; Prisoner; Healthcare practitioner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114870

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