COVID-19 Pandemic

CHIBE is proud that our faculty have worked hard to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, creating numerous programs locally and nationally, generating scholarship, and providing thought leadership to guide the pandemic response worldwide.

Here's some of our work we've done related to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Cognitive Bias

CHIBE researchers looked at how errors in human cognition that prioritize the readily imaginable over the statistical, the present over the future, and the direct over the indirect affected decisions during the pandemic.

Read the JAMA paper here

Behavioral Nudges

Our researchers found that text-based reminders that made vaccination salient and easy were effective in boosting COVID-19 vaccination rates within a health care system.

Read the Nature paper here

The Problem with Incentives

Cynthia Cryder and CHIBE’s George Loewenstein wrote a New York Times Upshot piece arguing that offering financial incentives for vaccination may send an unintended message.