The Behavioural Insights Team Working Paper Series - Moral appeals reduce simulated panic buying behaviour

- The work performed and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not express or represent the opinions of the State of Victoria or the Behavioural Insights Team. [...] An early literature review into panic buying during the pandemic highlighted four key psychological drivers of panic buying behaviour: the perceptions of the threat of the disease and scarcity of goods, a fear of the unknown, a potential coping behaviour, and broader social factors such as levels of social trust (Yuen, Wang, Ma, & Li, 2020). [...] Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of overpurchasing and panic buying using data from the united kingdom and the republic of ireland during the early phase of the covid-19 pandemic. [...] Anxiety as a mediator of relationships between perceptions of the threat of covid-19 and coping behaviors during the onset of the pandemic in poland. [...] Health pandemic in the era of (mis) information: examining the utility of using victim narrative and social endorsement of user-generated content to reduce panic buying in the us.