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> Yet repeated attempts by authorities to spread calm and urge against panic buying have had the opposite effect. IMO academia should research this. There are
by mettamage 5y ago
> Yet repeated attempts by authorities to spread calm and urge against panic buying have had the opposite effect.
IMO academia should research this. There are probably enough events + news on those events in this world. If the research is already done then I urge policy makers + mainstream media to read such research carefully.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoWhat is there to research? It seems obvious that people don't trust the authorities to have their best interests at heard when the authorities offer suggestions.
- mettamage 5y agoIf no messaging is better, then they should do that. If there is a certain form of messaging that is better, then they should do that.
- Arnt 5y agoRhetoric was studied a loooong time ago. This thing is simple. You build trust by being right, or you can use it (and perhaps wear it down) by relying on that trust. Sometimes when you use people's trust in you, you can resolve the problem using that trust as a tool, but if the problem happens anyway, you wear down your trust. A particular kind of organisation suggested that there'd be problems due to lack of fruit pickers, government said no, the organisation turned out to be right and it could be seen in the shops. A similar kind of organisation suggested that there'd be problems with haulage and transport, government said the problems would be manageable and managed, the organisation turned out to be right and it could be seen in the shops. Now a third organisation is saying the same kind of thing, this time about fuel.