The impersonal impact hypothesis states that news consumption leads to an increase of social concern, but not personal whereas the latter is most important for stimulating behaviour change. However, previous findings are mixed and mostly investigate private health behaviour. Here we, therefore, conceptually replicate these by studying a public crisis: case Covid-19 pandemic. results our longitu...

Commensality – the act of eating together and its social effects creating or reinforcing groups has been studied extensively. In life aboard ships, in particular, is attributed a key role reflecting thereby enforcing professional hierarchies deemed fundamental to functioning ship. However, transgressions these commensal rules customs have often overlooked. Taking eighteenth-century Ostend Compa...