Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer potential strategies to help mitigate social distancing noncompliance in a public health crisis.Researchers from the University of California, Riverside found that individuals with higher working memory capacity have an increased awareness of benefits over costs of social distancing.
As a result, they showed more compliance with recommended social distancing guidelines during the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak.“The higher the working memory capacity, the more likely that social distancing behaviors will follow,” said Dr.
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