Disease Prevalence and Fatality, Life History Strategies, and Behavioral Control of the COVID Pandemic

Hui Jing Lu; Xin Rui Wang; Yuan Yuan Liu; Lei Chang

doi:10.1007/s40806-021-00306-9

Disease Prevalence and Fatality, Life History Strategies, and Behavioral Control of the COVID Pandemic

Hui Jing Lu, Xin Rui Wang, Yuan Yuan Liu, Lei Chang

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise and raised many questions. One of the questions is whether infectious diseases indeed drive fast life history (LH) as the extent research suggests. This paper challenges this assumption and raises a different perspective. We argue that infectious diseases enact either slower or faster LH strategies and the related disease control behavior depending on disease severity. We tested and supported the theorization based on a sample of 662 adult residents drawn from all 32 provinces and administrative regions of mainland China. The findings help to broaden LH perspectives and to better understand unusual social phenomena arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	20-29
Number of pages	10
Journal	Evolutionary Psychological Science
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-021-00306-9
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

Keywords

COVID-19 pandemic
Fast and slow life history strategies
Intrinsic and extrinsic mortality
Prevalence and fatality of infectious diseases

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Psychology

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