People who feel more threatened by Covid-19 are most likely to stockpile toilet paper during the pandemic, according to a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE.

The perceived threat posed by COVID-19 was the strongest predictor of toilet-paper hoarding. The more people felt threatened by the pandemic, the more they crammed their cupboards with toilet paper.

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As for why people hoarded toilet paper in particular, according to Yarrow, this kind of panic buying could be a case of our social primate brains reacting to newsfeeds full of striking but ...