Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

This paper summarises useful evidence from behavioural science for fighting the COVID-19
outbreak. It is based on an extensive literature search of relevant behavioural interventions …

Humans are an ultrasocial species. This sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the
canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics …

INTRODUCTION A growing body of research suggests that populations around the globe
vary substantially along several important psychological dimensions and that populations …

Using mobile phone and survey data, we show that during the early phases of COVID-19,
voluntary social distancing was greater in areas with higher civic capital and amongst …

Experimental games model situations in which the future outcomes of individuals and
groups depend on their own choices and on those of other (groups of) individuals. Games …

Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases.
However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from …

Social distancing can slow the spread of COVID-19 if citizens comply with it and internalize
the cost of their mobility on others. We study how civic values mediate this process using …

A large literature shares the view that social norms shape human cooperation, but without a
clean empirical identification of the relevant norms almost every behaviour can be …