What We Learned About Human Behavior from the Pandemic [greatergood.berkeley.edu]
By Stephen Reicher, Greater Good Magazine, July 7, 2021 During the pandemic, a lot of assumptions were made about how people behave. Many of those assumptions were wrong, and they led to disastrous policies. Several governments worried that their pandemic restrictions would quickly lead to “behavioral fatigue” so that people would stop adhering to restrictions. In the U.K., the prime minister’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings recently admitted that this was the reason for not locking...