The more you tell me how and why to avoid spreading COVID-19, the more I feel I can spare myself the trouble. Enhancing compliance with measures against COVID-19 by counteracting side-effects of appeals for preventive behaviour. Hasselt University
To curb the toll of COVID-19, citizens need to massively comply with precautionary measures. Once a vaccine will be available that compliance will mostly consist of getting vaccinated. Until then, it consists of things like wearing a mouth mask and social distancing. Since the start of the first COVID-19 outbreak in Belgium, however, our country has witnessed a decline of people's motivation to show those behaviours. Why have some people not ...