"In general, people do not like to be told what to do,” one psychologist said.
There is widespread agreement that one of easiest ways to control the spread of the coronavirus is to wear a face mask, but there are all kinds of reasons why people don't take this basic step, experts said Tuesday.
Munerlyn's death placed a spotlight on the people whose job it has become to enforce regulations that rub a lot of people wrong. Or, Dorrance Hall said, they might express anger at the person denying them cake or “exercise a different freedom to regain the feeling of control and choice” by eating something else like potato chips, Hall said.
Story continuesIt doesn't help that on the subject of face masks, there have been mixed messages from the White House. Jonas Kaplan, an assistant research professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, said Trump’s supporters would be more likely to wear masks if the president led by example.
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