it’s not selfishness.
For a shortage of toilet paper at the beginning of the pandemic was responsible conscientious people with a high level of empathy and serious attitude to the threat of catching the virus.
To such conclusion came researchers from the Westphalia University named for Wilhelm, Institute of evolutionary anthropology of max Planck in Germany and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Their study published in PLOS One.
Psychologists have conducted a survey among more than a thousand adults in 35 countries, and brought the General features of the “buyers” using the model sastifactory the HEXACO personality structure.
Excessive stockpiling toilet paper, people were more emotional and responsible than the rest of the population. They also reacted to the threat COVID-19 with all seriousness.
Previously, scientists from the University of New South Wales conducted a major study and found out which countries in the period of the pandemic coronavirus was the biggest “consumer panic.” As it turned out, the most “hysterical” of buyers during the period of the coronavirus were residents of Australia, but the panic has affected almost all countries.
Anna Lysenko
