Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS), together with an interdisciplinary team of experts, have compiled ten fundamental mechanisms that can be used to describe the development of pandemics. The researchers selected ten examples and thereof described fundamental and robust mechanisms that are common across various diseases and social contexts. Social mechanisms such as trust in institutions, solidarity, and risk perception also shape people’s behavior and the course of a pandemic. Even though the acute phase of the global COVID-19 pandemic is over, pandemics are expected to arise in the future as well. WortgruppenZusammenhängende Worte werden als Wortgruppe gesucht, wenn Sie sie in Anführungsstriche setzen, z.