Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

JJV Bavel, K Baicker, PS Boggio, V Capraro… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

Changes in risk perception and self-reported protective behaviour during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

T Wise, TD Zbozinek, G Michelini… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Efforts to change behaviour are critical in minimizing the spread of highly transmissible
pandemics such as COVID-19. However, it is unclear whether individuals are aware of …

Using behavioural science to help fight the coronavirus

P Lunn, C Belton, C Lavin, F McGowan, S Timmons… - 2020 - econstor.eu
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 …

Does culture matter social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic?

TLD Huynh - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper is the first to examine the role of the cultural dimension in practising social
distancing across the world. By drawing the data from the Google COVID-19 community …

COVID-19 and the metaphor of war (COVID-19 y la metáfora de la guerra)

JM Sabucedo, M Alzate, D Hur - International Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Metaphors provide easy-to-understand explanations for threatening and unexpected events
and can guide behaviour. Some groups have used the metaphor of war in the current …

Perceived efficacy of COVID-19 restrictions, reactions and their impact on mental health during the early phase of the outbreak in six countries

MJ Mækelæ, N Reggev, N Dutra… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of people to drastically change their social life
habits as governments employed harsh restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus …

Framing climate change: Economics, ideology, and uncertainty in American news media content from 1988 to 2014

DA Stecula, E Merkley - Frontiers in Communication, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The news media play an influential role in shaping public attitudes on a wide range of issues—
climate change included. As climate change has risen in salience, the average American is …

Social preferences toward humans and machines: a systematic experiment on the role of machine payoffs

A von Schenk, V Klockmann… - … on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
There is growing interest in the field of cooperative artificial intelligence (AI), that is, settings
in which humans and machines cooperate. By now, more than 160 studies from various …

A behavioral economics perspective on the COVID-19 vaccine amid public mistrust

JL Saleska, KR Choi - Translational behavioral medicine, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The COVID-19 vaccine development, testing, and approval processes have moved forward
with unprecedented speed in 2020. Although several vaccine candidates have shown …

Prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The role of responsibility and vulnerability

DM Hellmann, AR Dorrough, A Glöckner - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
In two pre-registered and fully incentivized studies (N= 501), we investigate prosocial
behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Based on a comparison with pre …