Open AccessThe impacts of cognitive biases and heuristics on Covid-19 preventive behaviors
Author(s) -
Mehmet Sevgin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
przegląd politologiczny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2956-5081
pISSN - 1426-8876
DOI - 10.14746/pp.2021.26.4.9
Subject(s) - irrational number , covid-19 , heuristics , pandemic , isolation (microbiology) , cognition , psychology , cognitive psychology , computer science , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , mathematics , psychiatry , virology , pathology , outbreak , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , operating system , geometry
The covid-19 pandemic disease became part of the study of many scientific disciplines recently since its impact area is large and it threatened millions of lives. One of the important disciplines is public policy since the characteristics may easily influence the spread of covid-19. It is assumed that an individual’s irrational tendencies can increase this spread since they are highly correlated with the most important actions of prevention of the spread such as isolation, wearing a mask, and washing hands. Moreover, public policies can be effective in such a pandemic period if they take into consideration of individual’s irrational tendencies. Hence, in this study the psychological background of why individuals do not follow the regulations that can decrease the spread of covid-19 will be presented: cognitive biases and heuristics.