Partisanship unmasked? The role of politics and social norms in COVID-19 mask-wearing behavior
dc.contributor.author | Carey, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Nyhan, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Phillips, JB | |
dc.contributor.author | Reifler, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-27T13:18:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-09-20 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-04-27T11:55:00Z | |
dc.description.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. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 1-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 20 September 2022 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1017/xps.2022.20 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2028485 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/V004883/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/133042 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-1116-7346 (Reifler, Jason) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) / The Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PJ27BB | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original article is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | en_GB |
dc.subject | descriptive norms | en_GB |
dc.subject | partisanship | en_GB |
dc.subject | masks | en_GB |
dc.subject | survey experiments | en_GB |
dc.subject | affective polarization | en_GB |
dc.title | Partisanship unmasked? The role of politics and social norms in COVID-19 mask-wearing behavior | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-04-27T13:18:37Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2052-2630 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability statement: The data, code, and any additional materials required to replicate all analyses in this article are available at the Journal of Experimental Political Science Dataverse within the Harvard Dataverse Network at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PJ27BB (Carey et al. Reference Carey, Nyhan, Phillips and Reifler2022). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2052-2649 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Experimental Political Science | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Experimental Political Science | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-09-20 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-04-27T13:15:37Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-04-27T13:18:44Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-09-20 |
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