We formulate an in silico model of pathogen avoidance mechanism and investigate its impact on defensive behavioural measures (e.g., spontaneous social exclusions and distancing, crowd avoidance and voluntary vaccination adaptation). In particular, we use SIR(B)S (e.g., susceptible-infected-recovered with additional behavioural component) model to investigate the impact of homo-psychologicus aspects of epidemics. We focus on reactionary behavioural changes, which apply to both social distancing and voluntary vaccination participations.
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- Cherif, Alhaji (Author)
- Barley, Kamal (Contributor)
- Hurtado, Marcel (Contributor)
- Simon M. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center (Contributor)
- School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Contributor)
- 2015-10-14
- Digital object identifier: 10.1016/j.epidem.2015.09.003
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value1878-0067
- The final version of this article, as published in Epidemics, can be viewed online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436515000857?via%3Dihub, opens in a new window
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Cherif, A., Barley, K., & Hurtado, M. (2016). Homo-psychologicus: Reactionary behavioural aspects of epidemics. Epidemics, 14, 45-53. doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2015.09.003