Welcome to Tuesday’s Overnight Health Care. The White House coronavirus task force says Americans need to significantly change their behavior to reduce COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. States could receive the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines — about 6.4 million doses — by mid-December. Meanwhile, global flu infections have hit […]
Behavior
How redefining ‘normal’ can alter human behavior
A few years ago, Gregg Sparkman was thinking about how you might encourage people to eat less meat. Then a PhD student in psychology at Stanford University, Sparkman knew that animal farming is a major factor in global warming, producing about 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. While politicians […]
First Insight’s Data Puts Coronavirus Impact on Consumer Behavior Into Five Key Phases
Click here to read the full article. Since the very first days of the coronavirus pandemic, consumer behavior has been in a constant state of change. Five consumer studies by First Insight, taken between February and April, found that perception that COVID-19 would impact the global economy remained consistently strong […]