COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of person-situation interaction

Abstract

This paper aims to describe how emotions, risk perceptions, and social norms shape their protective behavior under uncertainty time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protective behavior means all individual efforts to comply with the pandemic measures: staying at home, hand washing, physical distancing, and wearing masks. Borrowing insight from the person-situation theory by Kurt Lewin, I try to entangle the interaction between personal and situational factors lingered within the pandemic environment that leads to our particular behavioral response. Following this, I discussed how people can comply with the measures and policies being enacted.