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Template Form for Journal Article Analysis Name: Kaiyuan Cui ID #: 115078701 Instructions: Type answers into this document, double-spaced. Points will be deducted for answers that are entirely handwritten. Make sure to use the correct terminology and concepts as presented in lecture and the textbook when developing your answers to these questions. Google Classroom no later than 2pm on the day listed on the weekly course schedule. Title of journal article: Risk perception, illusory superiority and personal responsibility during COVID-19: An experimental study of attitudes to staying home. Introduction a) Using the guidelines discussed in class, explain how the review of the literature section of the article is: i. Relevant and Current - The authors of the article provide a well-written review of the literature that is both relevant and current. They demonstrate a deep understanding of the subject matter, citing a range of studies related to their research on the impact of different framings on attitudes towards staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors' writing has a good amount of perplexity, with sentences varying in complexity, ensuring that the content is engaging and informative. The use of burstiness in the writing style helps to keep the reader's attention, as the authors switch between longer, more detailed sentences and shorter, concise sentences. Overall, the authors' review of the literature provides a strong foundation for their research and serves as an excellent resource for anyone interested in the topic of COVID-19 and public health messaging. 14 articles in the literature review and only 2 were not current articles. b) Locate the problem statement? The authors say that there's not enough research on how different ways of presenting 1 HAN 251-Revised 5/25/20

Template Form for Journal Article Analysis COVID-19 guidelines affect people's compliance. This is important because while there's a lot of research on persuasive messaging and COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors, there's a gap in the literature when it comes to the impact of framing. c) Locate the information that identifies the purpose of the research and then write a Purpose Statement using the appropriate script presented in chapter 4 lecture. The purpose of the research is to investigate how different framings of government advice may impact attitudes towards staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to investigate how different ways of presenting government advice affect people's attitudes towards staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study will explore the impact of different types of messaging on permissiveness towards going out for specific activities at varying levels of risk. By doing so, the study aims to contribute to our understanding of how to effectively communicate public health guidelines during infectious disease outbreaks. d) Locate the information that identifies the research question(s) and write a Research Question using the appropriate script presented in chapter 4 lecture. "The authors state that while there has been a significant amount of research on the effects of persuasive messaging on attitudes and behaviors related to COVID-19, there is limited research on how different framings of messaging may impact compliance with public health guidelines." What is the impact of different framings of government advice on compliance with public health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic? To what extent do perception risk levels relate to everyday scenarios of 581 residents in the United Kingdom? To what extent do various communication strategies affect beliefs about one’s own actions and those of others amongst residents in the U.K? e) If appropriate to the research methodology, locate the hypothesis and indicate which format that hypothesis is written in. If there is no hypothesis, write one if appropriate. There is no hypothesis explicitly stated in the text. The hypothesis of this study is that framing government advice using imperative and personal responsibility-based language will lead to greater compliance with public health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to framing the advice in terms of self or other-oriented language. 2. Methods/Methodology 2 HAN 251-Revised 5/25/20

Template Form for Journal Article Analysis a) What Methodology was used in this study? Experimental research Quantitative b) What Research Design was used in this study? Mixed design of factorial design Quasi-experimental posttest c) State the Research Methods: i. Sampling method – convenience sampling Non-Probability ii. Data Collection method – Online surveys Experiment 1: “Participants were each presented with 30 scenarios, and they evaluated these scenarios by indicating to what degree they were certain that it was alright to leave the house under the circumstances described in the scenario. Participants indicated their certainty on a visual analogue scale (VAS) ranging left-to-right from 0 to 1, without them being able to see this number, with 0 signifying ‘completely certain it is not alright to go out’ and 1 signifying ‘completely certain it is alright to go out’” (van Baal et al., 2022, p. 611). Experiment 2: “The VAS was largely the same as in Experiment 1, but as a between- participant manipulation, the VAS was either identical to the one in the initial study (No Marker condition), or it contained a visible mid-point on the scale at ‘uncertain whether it is alright or not’ (Midpoint condition). In both conditions, we also included a label underneath the midpoint: ‘Uncertain if it is alright or not’” (van Baal et al., 2022, p. 617). iii. Data Analysis method – Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics 3 HAN 251-Revised 5/25/20

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Template Form for Journal Article Analysis 3. Results/Findings a) Describe how the results of the data analysis was presented (i.e., tables, charts, graphs, descriptive paragraph, etc.)? A combination of descriptive paragraphs and charts/graphs 4. Conclusions/Discussion a) What was the author’s interpretation of the data in alignment with the question/hypothesis? The authors looked at how different ways of phrasing government advice impacted people's attitudes towards staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic. They found that using imperative language was more effective in reducing people's willingness to go out compared to using personal responsibility-based language. The authors found that sex and age were important factors in people's attitudes towards staying home, with males and younger people being more permissive. b) What are the stated limitations of the study? The study only looked at people's attitudes and intentions, not their actual behavior, and that the sample was limited to people in the UK, which may limit the generalizability of the results. They also noted the potential influence of social desirability bias, which can impact self-reported attitudes. c) What are the suggestions for further research? The authors recommended that future research focus on understanding how people reason about finding loopholes to justify going out during the pandemic and investigate how language from public health officials can influence behavior. They also suggested using the 4 HAN 251-Revised 5/25/20

Template Form for Journal Article Analysis effect sizes from this study as a baseline for powering future experiments and using more focused designs to reduce the need for larger sample sizes. 5 HAN 251-Revised 5/25/20

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