Partisanship Unmasked? The Role of Politics and Social Norms in COVID-19 Mask-Wearing Behavior

IF 3.2 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Experimental Political Science Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI:10.1017/XPS.2022.20

John M. Carey, B. Nyhan, Joseph B. Phillips, Jason Reifler

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Abstract Public health officials have faced resistance in their efforts to promote mask-wearing to counter the spread of COVID-19. One approach to promoting behavior change is to alert people to the fact that a behavior is common (a descriptive norm). However, partisan differences in pandemic mitigation behavior mean that Americans may be especially (in)sensitive to information about behavioral norms depending on the party affiliation of the group in question. In July–August 2020, we tested the effects of providing information to respondents about how many Americans, co-partisans, or out-partisans report wearing masks regularly on both mask-wearing intentions and on the perceived effectiveness of masks. Learning that a majority of Americans report wearing masks regularly increases mask-wearing intentions and perceived effectiveness, though the effects of this information are not distinguishable from other treatments.

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党派之争揭露了吗?政治和社会规范在COVID-19口罩佩戴行为中的作用

公共卫生官员在推广戴口罩以应对COVID-19传播的努力中遇到了阻力。促进行为改变的一种方法是提醒人们行为是普遍的(描述性规范)。然而，大流行缓解行为的党派差异意味着美国人可能对有关行为规范的信息特别敏感，这取决于相关群体的党派关系。在2020年7月至8月期间，我们测试了向受访者提供有关有多少美国人、共同党派或党派外的人报告经常戴口罩的信息对戴口罩意图和口罩的感知有效性的影响。了解到大多数美国人报告经常戴口罩会增加戴口罩的意愿和感知效果，尽管这一信息的效果与其他治疗方法没有区别。

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Journal of Experimental Political Science Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS) features cutting-edge research that utilizes experimental methods or experimental reasoning based on naturally occurring data. We define experimental methods broadly: research featuring random (or quasi-random) assignment of subjects to different treatments in an effort to isolate causal relationships in the sphere of politics. JEPS embraces all of the different types of experiments carried out as part of political science research, including survey experiments, laboratory experiments, field experiments, lab experiments in the field, natural and neurological experiments. We invite authors to submit concise articles (around 4000 words or fewer) that immediately address the subject of the research. We do not require lengthy explanations regarding and justifications of the experimental method. Nor do we expect extensive literature reviews of pros and cons of the methodological approaches involved in the experiment unless the goal of the article is to explore these methodological issues. We expect readers to be familiar with experimental methods and therefore to not need pages of literature reviews to be convinced that experimental methods are a legitimate methodological approach. We will consider longer articles in rare, but appropriate cases, as in the following examples: when a new experimental method or approach is being introduced and discussed or when novel theoretical results are being evaluated through experimentation. Finally, we strongly encourage authors to submit manuscripts that showcase informative null findings or inconsistent results from well-designed, executed, and analyzed experiments.