With regular music festivals, people can more easily seek help or advice about drug and alcohol or mental health issues. But with drive-ins we need to be creative to minimise harms.
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Boris Johnson has called cricket balls a ‘natural vector of disease’, but how would we find the evidence to know if he is correct?
The government should be more honest about what it sees as an acceptable level of risk.
Was the government correct to think that adherence would fall over time? Perhaps.
A global pandemic might be at the forefront of everyone’s minds. But we can’t assume that future threats will get the attention they deserve from people living in an information-saturated world.
Together the social and emotional ‘jobs’ of adolescence – developing intimate friendships and achieving autonomy – make teens uniquely resistant to calls for social distancing.
In these times of fear and uncertainty, many of us face daily decisions regarding the right thing to do. An ethicist offers guidance on how to think through them.
It might seem like the constant reminder of how much danger we are in would make us act responsibly, but research suggests the contrary is true.
We’ve been social distancing for weeks now. Are seemingly low-risk social activities OK? The short answer is no.
COVID-19 has brought to the fore the interdependency of business and society. It’s time for amendments to the social contract that underlies societal support for business.
Using a survey taken from March 10 – March 16, social scientists tried to untangle the complicated connection between feelings of vulnerability and behavior change in response to the coronavirus.
Humans tend to downplay their own susceptibility to being harmed – an attitude of ‘it won’t happen to me’ that could be hindering the collective response to the pandemic.
When this feeling dawned on me years ago on one of many early morning drives to Canberra during my PhD, it was almost crippling.
It’s hard to adopt a set of hard and fast rules with the advice changing so quickly. So it’s important you have a set of evidence-based principles to guide your decision-making about social contact.
At times of high tension, governments can be cornered into making mistakes by responding to the wrong pressures.
The risks to individuals vary hugely with age.
Behavioral economists explain how widespread use of face masks, hand sanitizer and other preventive measures could counterintuitively encourage riskier behaviors around coronavirus.
New research shows that when companies do things like give to charity or reduce their carbon footprint, consumers perceive their products as less risky.
Your GP will discuss the risks and benefits of menopausal hormone therapy, taking into account a host of factors.
In catastrophic fire conditions, leaving early is the only safe option. But in other conditions, one thing that’s often overlooked in decisions to stay or go is how mentally tough you need to be.
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Risk Management, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Miami
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Economics, HEC Paris Business School
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Alabama
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Professor, Finance, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professeur, philosophe et politologue, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL
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Professor - Risk governance, culture, remuneration, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Associate Researcher, University of Tasmania
