People who refuse to wear a coronavirus face mask have lower cognitive ability, experts say
PEOPLE who refuse to wear a face mask to reduce the risk of coronavirus have lower cognitive ability, new research has found.
As a result, they also show more compliance when it came to following the guidelines during the early stage of the Covid-19 outbreak. People were asked to complete a set of questions about whether they were observing social distancing rules, their mood and feelings. He added that their findings suggest that policymakers need to consider people's general cognitive abilities when promoting compliance behaviours, such as wearing a face mask."Make the decision process easy for people."The study's findings also suggest learning social distancing as a new norm requires an effortful decision process that relies on working memory.
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