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July 2021 PMID 33756152

Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nick Byrd, Michał Białek

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Peak: 8 in Mar 2021
across 6 sources since Jul 2020

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88,291
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94

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Jul 2020 – Jan 2025

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What people are saying

Several discussions analyze how philosophical beliefs, rather than communication strategies, primarily drive compliance with health recommendations, with phrases like 'dominated reflection' and 'values-based beliefs' indicating deep engagement. Others examine methodological aspects like effect sizes and null results, reflecting high interest and seriousness in understanding the research's implications for public health policy.

AgreementModerate agreement

Most posts show support or interest in the findings, with some highlighting how philosophical beliefs influence health behaviors differently than messaging alone.

InterestHigh interest

Posts demonstrate high curiosity, referencing detailed aspects such as null results, effect sizes, and specific nuances in the research, indicating strong engagement with the subject matter.

EngagementModerate engagement

Discussions include citing methodological choices, effect size bounds, and reflections on the implications of beliefs on public health compliance, suggesting thoughtful engagement.

ImpactModerate impact

Posts suggest that the research has meaningful implications for understanding public health behaviors, especially the role of underlying beliefs rather than just messaging, which could influence future strategies.

Abstract in brief

  • The study investigated how factors like victim portrayal (individual vs. statistical), personal reflection, and philosophical beliefs influence people's compliance with COVID-19 public health guidelines, with a total of 998 participants.
  • Results showed that messaging about individual victims slightly increased compliance, but overall, moral beliefs, religiosity, political preferences, and science beliefs were stronger predictors of whether people followed health recommendations.
  • The findings suggest that differences in compliance are less about messaging effectiveness and more about underlying philosophical and value-based beliefs.]
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

Jul 24, 2020 · 40 likes · 14 shares · 3,498 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

Today I share "Your Health vs. My Liberty" at #SPSP2021: @mbialek82 and I found that flouting public health recommendations was less about ineffective messaging or reasoning than philosophical beliefs. Free

Feb 12, 2021 · 8 likes · 3 shares · 3,499 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

Mar 22, 2021 · 5 likes · 2 shares · 3,498 followers View post →
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri
@gaveltri · X

Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic https://t.co/zRj5aqub3T

Mar 20, 2021 · 5 likes · 2 shares · 2,213 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

@AGodefroidt The value of null results depends on—among other things—expected effect and sample sizes. Suppose I didn’t detect an expected d of 0.1 If my comparison was < ≈500/cell, that’s not very informative. If that was > 1500/cell, then it may be informative. https://t.co/MyWXtxozRc https://t.co/lY6RlyQsvl

Jan 24, 2022 · 4 likes · 3,498 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

The video about @mbialek82’s and my “Your Health vs. My Liberty” is in today’s @WPRN_org’s conference. Find it here: https://t.co/o2BzxJ7Nt4 Preventative behavior predicted by - believing we should prevent harm - preferring equality to liberty - not comparing COVID19 to Flu

Dec 10, 2021 · 3 likes · 3,499 followers View post →

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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

@Omid_Ghasemi21 Religion can surprise. Contrary to some headlines' implications religiosity predicted MORE compliance with public health officials COVID recommendations (in the U.S), not LESS. ...even though religiosity correlated as you'd expect with reflection tests. https://t.co/MyWXtxp7GK https://t.co/AHoLKyQeS5

Jan 23, 2025 · 3,498 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

@levels_of Table 1 of @lakens 2017 makes recommendations based on the bounds of your smallest effect size of interest (SESOI) to see if an effect is *practically* equivalent to zero: https://t.co/MFVk8S8sPY @mbialek82 and I cited a meta-analysis to choose a SESOI: https://t.co/MyWXtxozRc https://t.co/PR5QSPq855

May 5, 2023 · 2 likes · 3,498 followers View post →
Omid Ghasemi
@Omid_Ghasemi21 · X

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Jun 26, 2022 · 14 shares · 486 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

RT @savvides: Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public…

Apr 6, 2022 · 1 share · 3,498 followers View post →
Catherine Nacol
@CatherineNacol · X

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Mar 16, 2022 · 14 shares · 1,698 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

@AGodefroidt The value of null results depends on—among other things—expected effect and sample sizes. Suppose I didn’t detect an expected d of 0.1 If my comparison was < ≈500/cell, that’s not very informative. If that was > 1500/cell, then it may be informative. https://t.co/MyWXtxozRc https://t.co/lY6RlyQsvl

Jan 24, 2022 · 4 likes · 3,498 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

The video about @mbialek82’s and my “Your Health vs. My Liberty” is in today’s @WPRN_org’s conference. Find it here: https://t.co/o2BzxJ7Nt4 Preventative behavior predicted by - believing we should prevent harm - preferring equality to liberty - not comparing COVID19 to Flu

Dec 10, 2021 · 3 likes · 3,499 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

RT @Eva2014Natalia: Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting…

Aug 22, 2021 · 1 share · 3,498 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

RT @PsyArXivBot: Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting pub…

Aug 18, 2021 · 1 share · 3,498 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

RT @CovaFlorian: 39/#365papers: Byrd, N., & Bialek, M. (2020, July 23). Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflect…

Aug 17, 2021 · 3 shares · 3,498 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

RT @MAGarciaCoto: Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting pu…

Jul 6, 2021 · 1 share · 3,498 followers View post →
Sidoine D.
@SidoineD · X

RT @CovaFlorian: 39/#365papers: Byrd, N., & Bialek, M. (2020, July 23). Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflect…

Jul 4, 2021 · 3 shares · 213 followers View post →
Govind Persad (also @govindpersad.bsky.social)
@GovindPersad · X

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Jun 30, 2021 · 2 shares · 2,162 followers View post →
Miyanaka_Daisuke
@miyanaka · X

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Apr 13, 2021 · 2 shares · 1,399 followers View post →
Miguel Garcia Coto
@MAGarciaCoto · X

Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/4zHLpYdfmr

Mar 25, 2021 · 1 like · 1 share · 542 followers View post →
The Doctors Post
@DoctorsPost_ · X

Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/TAunUmtmk8

Mar 25, 2021 · 29 followers View post →
Sylvain Delouvée
@sylvaindelouvee · X

RT @gaveltri: Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public…

Mar 23, 2021 · 2 shares · 2,709 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

Mar 22, 2021 · 5 likes · 2 shares · 3,498 followers View post →
Flaminio Squazzoni
@squazzoni · X

RT @gaveltri: Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public…

Mar 20, 2021 · 2 shares · 2,007 followers View post →
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri
@gaveltri · X

Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic https://t.co/zRj5aqub3T

Mar 20, 2021 · 5 likes · 2 shares · 2,213 followers View post →
Philippos Savvides (
@savvides · X

Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic https://t.co/hdf0VJIpwY

Mar 16, 2021 · 1 like · 1 share · 1,185 followers View post →
Natalia Viatkina Наталія Вяткіна
@Eva2014Natalia · X

Your health vs. my liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic on @ResearchGate: https://t.co/IOuBZay8Xw

Mar 9, 2021 · 1 like · 1 share · 595 followers View post →
Florian Cova
@CovaFlorian · X

39/#365papers: Byrd, N., & Bialek, M. (2020, July 23). Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance. https://t.co/u7CXXkYa4k

Feb 22, 2021 · 1 like · 3 shares · 5,825 followers View post →
Michał Białek
@mbialek82 · X

RT @byrd_nick: Today I share "Your Health vs. My Liberty" at #SPSP2021: @mbialek82 and I found that flouting public health recommendations…

Feb 12, 2021 · 3 shares · 834 followers View post →
Sara Sherbaji
@likeplastic_ · X

RT @byrd_nick: Today I share "Your Health vs. My Liberty" at #SPSP2021: @mbialek82 and I found that flouting public health recommendations…

Feb 12, 2021 · 3 shares · 4,054 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

RT @byrd_nick: Today I share "Your Health vs. My Liberty" at #SPSP2021: @mbialek82 and I found that flouting public health recommendations…

Feb 12, 2021 · 3 shares · 3,499 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

Today I share "Your Health vs. My Liberty" at #SPSP2021: @mbialek82 and I found that flouting public health recommendations was less about ineffective messaging or reasoning than philosophical beliefs. Free

Feb 12, 2021 · 8 likes · 3 shares · 3,499 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrdnick.com · Bluesky

Today I uploaded all of my #SPSP2021 materials for "Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical beliefs, reflection and identifiable victim effects during COVID-19 pandemic" Video, poster, preprint, and prediction poll ready to go! https://whova.com/embedded/event/cecli_202103/

Jan 29, 2021 View post →
Tommy Cleary
@tommy_cleary · X

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Jan 18, 2021 · 14 shares · 1,291 followers View post →
Michelle Eilers, PhD meilers.bsky.social
@meiler01 · X

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Jan 7, 2021 · 14 shares · 583 followers View post →
Sino-West Research Group Lab
@SinoWestRGLab · X

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Nov 21, 2020 · 14 shares · 132 followers View post →
Siu Kit YEUNG
@siukityeung_res · X

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Sep 30, 2020 · 14 shares · 567 followers View post →
Caleb Reynolds
@calebjr1 · X

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Jul 25, 2020 · 14 shares · 294 followers View post →
Shane Littrell, PhD
@MetacogniShane · X

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Jul 24, 2020 · 14 shares · 875 followers View post →
Sylvain Delouvée
@sylvaindelouvee · X

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Jul 24, 2020 · 14 shares · 2,709 followers View post →
Mikio Akagi
@Sainsha · X

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Jul 24, 2020 · 14 shares · 1,381 followers View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrdnick.com · Bluesky

Jul 24, 2020 · 5 shares View post →
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@byrd_nick · X

Jul 24, 2020 · 40 likes · 14 shares · 3,498 followers View post →
PsyArXiv-bot
@PsyArXivBot · X

Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance https://t.co/lFOTaR0h4K

Jul 24, 2020 · 2 likes · 1 share · 7,271 followers View post →