September 17, 2025Open Access

Person, place, or preference? Combining subjective and objective decision agency with choice preferences predicts behavior during major shifts in human mobility.

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Analysis reveals how decision agency and public health policy influence mobility patterns during crises.

Decision agency and choice preferences significantly predicted mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Increased zip code-level visits were linked to decision-making preferences like loss aversion and temporal discounting.
Analysis utilized mobile phone data to assess mobility across six categories, including healthcare and grocery stores.
Findings highlight the importance of behavioral mechanisms in informing public health interventions and policies.

Yao et al. (2025) studied this question.

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