Development and initial psychometric properties of a panic buying scale during COVID-19 pandemic

Fear is a powerful driver of human behavior, even more during times of crisis. Panic buying occurs when fear and panic influence behavior leading people to buy more things than usual. So far, no specific scale on this has been found in the major databases, thus the aim of this exploratory study is t...

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Main Authors: Samuel Lins, Sibele Aquino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020315899