削弱了工作日:封锁打乱了风险承受能力的每周周期
Virginia Fedrigo1, Benno Guenther2, Rob Jenkins3
1Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK. v.a.fedrigo@lse.ac.uk.
Scientific reports
|November 30, 2023
概括
风险承受力遵循一个每周的模式,在周中下降,在周五上升. 当人们保持对平日及其关联的强烈认识时,这种循环会持续下去,正如COVID-19封锁研究所揭示的那样.
科学领域:
- 行为经济学是一种行为经济学.
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 时间生物学 时间生物学
背景情况:
- 在风险耐受性方面存在着一致的每周模式,从周一到周四观察到下降,周五增加.
- 调查这种每周风险周期的潜在机制是具有挑战性的,因为实验性地操纵七天周期是不切实际的.
研究的目的:
- 通过在英国COVID-19封锁期间进行自然实验,调查维持每周风险周期的因素.
- 为了检查周日感受中断对风险耐受性模式的影响.
主要方法:
- 在英国COVID-19封锁期间进行了两项研究,测量了参与者的风险反应.
- 参与者根据他们对工作日的感觉 (强或弱) 以及他们每周日常中断的持续时间进行了分类.
- 收集了风险态度指标,以评估风险容忍度的变化.
主要成果:
- 第1项研究 (N=864) 发现每周风险周期在具有强烈周日意识的参与者中是一致的.
- 第二项研究 (N=829) 显示,即使在具有强烈周日感的参与者中,每周风险周期也被废除了,这表明其他因素也在发挥作用.
- 研究结果表明,对于每周的风险周期来说,强烈的周日意识和维持的周日关联都至关重要.
结论:
- 每周的风险周期取决于工作日的突出性和意义.
- 缺乏周日突出或周日关联的衰落会破坏典型的每周风险模式.
- 保持强烈的周日意识及其关联对于每周风险周期的持久性至关重要.
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