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as “Being afraid that others might buy everything that 'I' might not be able to buy

it when 'I' need it.”

In a condition that people answered as no for the second question, the other fifth

question was, “What would you buy if you are able to go shopping?”. For this

question, 65% among Singaporeans, 65.2% among Koreans, and 62.5% among

other global countries answered as “Daily necessity”, 20% among Singaporeans,

26.1% among Koreans, and 37.5% among global countries answered as “Things

that is related to your hobby (e.g.nintendo switch or you newly created Netflix

account)”.

In a condition that people answered as no for the second question, the other sixth

question was, “Will you buy more or the same or less amount of this item,

compared to the usual quantity that you buy?”. For this question, 20% among

Singaporeans, 17.4% among Koreans, and 25% among other global countries

answered as “more”, 70% among Singaporeans, 82.6% among Koreans, and 75%

among global countries answered as “same”, 10% among Singaporeans, no one

from Korea and other global countries answered as “less”.

4. Discussions

Our groups have assumed that people adopt the herd mentality during an
epidemic, and begin to mimic actions of others, thus resulting in widespread

common behaviours. The thesis is drawn out based on the reasoning from the herd

mentality, the societies actions towards the covid 19 and the differences of people’s

behaviour in other pandemic cases. According to the results which shows that

people from global countries are most likely feeling quite anxious about the present

pandemic, connected to the mimic action such as stockpiling of foods and daily

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