RAPID: Factors that affect understanding the risks of COVID-19

RAPID：影响了解 COVID-19 风险的因素

• 批准号: 2027822
• 负责人: John Jonides
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2027822&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Factors; affect; understanding; risks

The threat of the COVID-19 virus has not been clearly understood by a substantial portion of the U.S. population. Many people have been slow to adopt attitudes and behaviors that will serve to mitigate the risks of the pandemic. With all the publicity that the virus has engendered, how can this be so? The researchers hypothesize that these failures to change attitude and behavior stem from three factors: failures to realize the impact that this disease has, failures to realize how quickly it will be transmitted, and failures to appreciate the dire consequences it will have on the health care system. In this study, the researcher will examine factors underlying these failures and ways to improve delivery of information relevant to COVID-19. Results and suggestions for improving communication and comprehension are expected to be disseminated widely and expeditiously.In order to investigate ways of improving the understanding of the risks involving COVID-19, the researchers, a highly experienced and inter-disciplinary team, propose three lines of research. They will examine (a) how different ways of presenting information about the proliferation of the disease affects people’s estimates of its incidence and rates of death, as well as intended future social behavior, (b) how individual differences among individuals and countries along demographic and trait dimensions will influence their estimates of the spread of the disease, and (c) how people are reasoning about the impact of the disease on the viability of the healthcare system. Methods will include measuring the ability to predict risk and consequences of the disease as well as the impact of “flattening the curve” as functions of several variables, including mode of information presentation, numeracy, motivation, health status, and other demographic and trait variables.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

COVID-19病毒的威胁尚未被相当一部分美国人清楚地理解。许多人在采取有助于减轻这一流行病风险的态度和行为方面行动迟缓。 在这种病毒引起的所有宣传下，怎么会这样呢？研究人员假设，这些未能改变态度和行为的原因有三个：未能意识到这种疾病的影响，未能意识到它的传播速度，以及未能意识到它对医疗保健系统的可怕后果。在这项研究中，研究人员将研究这些失败的潜在因素以及改善COVID-19相关信息传递的方法。为了提高对COVID-19的风险的认识，由经验丰富的跨学科团队组成的研究小组提出了三个研究方向，即通过对COVID-19的研究，提高对COVID-19风险的认识。他们将研究（a）呈现疾病扩散信息的不同方式如何影响人们对其发病率和死亡率的估计，以及预期的未来社会行为，（B）沿着人口和特征维度的个人和国家之间的个体差异如何影响他们对疾病传播的估计，以及（c）人们如何推理疾病对医疗保健系统的可行性的影响。方法将包括测量预测疾病风险和后果的能力，以及作为几个变量的函数的“使曲线变平”的影响，这些变量包括信息呈现方式、计算能力、动机、健康状况，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估支持。影响审查标准。

项目成果

How well do ordinary Americans forecast the growth of COVID-19?

• DOI: 10.3758/s13421-022-01288-0
• 发表时间: 2022-10
• 期刊: Memory & cognition
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Fansher M;Adkins TJ;Lewis RL;Boduroglu A;Lalwani P;Quirk M;Shah P;Jonides J
• 通讯作者: Jonides J