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Coronavirus contact-tracing apps: most of us won’t cooperate unless everyone does

  • Written by Stefan Volk, Associate Professor and Co-Director Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group, University of Sydney
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As governments look to ease general social-distancing measures and instead use more targeted strategies to stop coronavirus transmission, we face a social dilemma about the limits of cooperative behaviour.

Consider the controversy over contact-tracing phone apps, which can help authorities identify people with whom someone diagnosed...

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