id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-341445-0e759ijp Zhang, Ke Threat of infectious disease during an outbreak: Influence on tourists' emotional responses to disadvantaged price inequality() 2020-07-16 .txt text/plain 6623 340 48 Despite the documented negative impacts of diseases on tourism demand and people's perceived health risk, researchers have seldom examined the psychological responses of tourists travelling during an infectious disease outbreak. We therefore conducted three studies to examine this key aspect, and our findings indicate that tourists have a strong negative emotional reaction towards disadvantaged tourism-related prices in response to a high (vs low) infectious disease threat. In Study 2B, we manipulated the disease threat and showed that a higher disease threat led tourists to be more risk averse, which in turn magnified their negative emotional reaction to a disadvantaged price inequality. Next, in Study 2B, we investigated the causal effect of the disease threat on the participants' emotional reactions to disadvantaged price inequality while directly measuring risk aversion as the underlying mechanism. This showed that risk aversion mediated the effect of the disease threat on the tourists' negative emotional reactions to the disadvantaged price inequality. ./cache/cord-341445-0e759ijp.txt ./txt/cord-341445-0e759ijp.txt