Couldn't socially distance? Blame your working memory

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Couldn't socially distance? Blame your working memory

"The higher the working memory capacity, the more likely that social distancing behaviors will follow," said Zhang, the paper's senior author. "Interestingly, this relationship holds even after we statistically control for relevant psychological and socioeconomic factors such as depressed and anxious moods, personality traits, education, intelligence, and income.

This was probably the nicest article I could find about this study.