Risk Perception Biases and the Resilience of Ethics for Complying with COVID-19-Pandemic-Related Safety Measures

Authors

Bako Rajaonah^{1, *,} , Enrico Zio^{2, 3,}

¹Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201), Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes F-59313, France

²Centre de Recherche sur les Risques et les Crises, MINES ParisTech/PSL Université Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France

³Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

^*Corresponding author. Email: bako.rajaonah@uphf.fr

DOI

10.2991/jracr.k.210707.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Risk perception; resilience; ethics; mental models of risk; trust; COVID-19

Abstract

This perspective paper presents factors that bias COVID-19-related risk judgments and risk decisions, such as cognitive biases, affect heuristics, mental models of risk and trust. The goal is to gain knowledge about the difficulty of risk communication in inducing attitudinal and behavioral changes regarding protective measures. Talking about morality and ethics appears to be less obsolete and more necessary than ever; it could even be seen as a ‘spare tire’ after one and a half years of risk communication and almost 4 million deaths. Perhaps it is time to think in terms of resilience at all levels, from the citizen of humanity to the highest institutions.

Copyright

© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press B.V.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Bako Rajaonah
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DA  - 2021/07/14
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JO  - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response
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