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SUBMITTER: Schonger M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725369 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schonger Martin M Sele Daniela D
PloS one 20201209 12
Exponential growth bias is the phenomenon whereby humans underestimate exponential growth. In the context of infectious diseases, this bias may lead to a failure to understand the magnitude of the benefit of non-pharmaceutical interventions. Communicating the same scenario in different ways (framing) has been found to have a large impact on people's evaluations and behavior in the contexts of social behavior, risk taking and health care. We find that framing matters for people's assessment of th ...[more]