This article is called Sneezing in Times of a Flu Pandemic. This is about two psychologists, Spike Lee and Norbert Schwarz, who wanted to test if a higher risk of the flu could trigger fears of unrelated illnesses in people. So they conducted an experiment to see what would happen. The two researchers had an experimenter, who would loudly sneeze as students passed in a busy campus. After that, they surveyed many of the students. In doing this survey, they discovered that a lot of the people who has seen the experimenter sneeze said that they showed a greater fear of falling ill than others. Just to make sure the psychologists had accurate results, they repeated the test, this time in a mall. The interviewer himself sneezed and coughed, and he conducted a survey on whether the government should spend more of their money on either the flu vaccine or green jobs. The people that were surveyed and had seen him sneeze favored the flu vaccine rather than green jobs.
I completely agree to what this article says. Because of the H1N1, also known as the swine flu, people are tending to overreact way too much if they see someone sneeze or cough. Some people totally make a mountain out of a molehill. I mean, just because a person sneezes or coughs, does it mean they have the swine flu? There are a lot more signs to think someone has the swine flu. In addition, because of the amount people with swine flu is rising, people are just starting to get more and more scared. In conclusion, I think that people shouldn't overreact and get scared if someone sneezes or coughs, because then they'll be afraid that they ave the swine flu.
Source: This article is from Times.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102121720.htm
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