Privacy concerns can explain unwillingness to download and use contact tracing apps when COVID-19 concerns are high
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Highlights：
• Contact tracings app can “flatten the curve” but there are privacy concerns.
• Disease concerns may heighten privacy concerns.
• Thus, disease concerns may explain why tracing app uptake is slow.
• Three experiments in France, Australia, and the United States tested our hypotheses.
• Explanatory mediators included social conservatism and greater privacy concerns.
摘要
•Contact tracings app can “flatten the curve” but there are privacy concerns.•Disease concerns may heighten privacy concerns.•Thus, disease concerns may explain why tracing app uptake is slow.•Three experiments in France, Australia, and the United States tested our hypotheses.•Explanatory mediators included social conservatism and greater privacy concerns.
论文关键词：COVID-19,Disease concerns,Contact tracing apps,Privacy
论文评审过程：Received 20 September 2020, Revised 20 January 2021, Accepted 24 January 2021, Available online 28 January 2021, Version of Record 2 February 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106718
