The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives to a profound extent. In this research, we examined how the pandemic might have influenced people's general risk attitude in their daily lives. Across four studies (two preregistered) using U.S. online worker and Canadian university student samples, we observed that individuals who were severely affected by the pandemic showed higher risk taking toward a variety of risky activities than those who were less severely affected. We attributed this effect to elevated boredom levels and increased perceived benefits from taking risks among the severely affected group and provided supporting evidence. Data ruled out risk perception, income, employment status, and response biases as alternative explanations. Our findings shed light on the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, decision under risk, the role of perceived benefits of risk taking, and effective policy interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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风险但诱人：严重的 COVID-19 大流行影响增加了冒险精神。

COVID-19 大流行在很大程度上改变了我们的生活。在这项研究中，我们研究了大流行如何影响人们在日常生活中的一般风险态度。在使用美国在线工作者和加拿大大学生样本的四项研究（两项预先注册）中，我们观察到，与受疫情影响较轻的人相比，受疫情严重影响的个人对各种高风险活动的风险更高。我们将这种影响归因于无聊程度的提高和受严重影响的群体承担风险带来的感知收益增加，并提供了支持性证据。数据排除了风险认知、收入、就业状况和反应偏差作为替代解释。我们的研究结果揭示了 COVID-19 大流行的心理后果，风险下的决策、风险承担的感知收益的作用以及有效的政策干预。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。