Skip to Content Skip to Content

Communications

What statistics are most likely to promote positive actions during a pandemic?
A medical professional wearing scrubs, latex gloves and a stethoscope looks at pages of graphs and data.

Image: iStock

What statistics are most likely to promote positive actions during a pandemic?

A new study from PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín and research associate Haesung Annie Jung finds that some COVID statistics are more effective than others at encouraging people to change their behavior.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Bringing Ukraine to Penn
Dariya Orlova, Olena Lysenko, Serhii Shadrin, Hannah Kaluher, and Maksym Potlov

(Left to right) Olena Lysenko, a documentary filmmaker, and Dariya Orlova, a lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Serhii Shadrin and Hannah Kaluher, graduate students participating in a one-year program for displaced scholars in the Russian and East European Studies Department; and Maksym Potlov, a fourth-year from Odesa, a Penn World Scholar.

nocred

Bringing Ukraine to Penn

On the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, displaced and visiting scholars and students from Ukraine share their experience at Penn.

Kristen de Groot

A national TikTok trend is sparking thefts of Kias and Hyundais in Philadelphia—and residents are feeling the impact

A national TikTok trend is sparking thefts of Kias and Hyundais in Philadelphia—and residents are feeling the impact

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton calls the Kia Boyz Challenge on TikTok a “perfect storm” for young people in cities where vehicle theft is common, since they know it could be a shortcut to notoriety.