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

Jay J. Van Bavel; Katherine Baicker; Paulo S. Boggio; Valerio Capraro; Aleksandra Cichocka; Mina Cikara; Molly J. Crockett; Alia J. Crum; Karen M. Douglas; James N. Druckman; John Drury; Oeindrila Dube; Naomi Ellemers; Eli J. Finkel; James H. Fowler; Michele Gelfand; Shihui Han; S. Alexander Haslam; Jolanda Jetten; Shinobu Kitayama; Dean Mobbs; Lucy E. Napper; Dominic J. Packer; Gordon Pennycook; Ellen Peters; Richard E. Petty; David G. Rand; Stephen D. Reicher; Simone Schnall; Azim Shariff; Linda J. Skitka; Sandra Susan Smith; Cass R. Sunstein; Nassim Tabri; Joshua A. Tucker; Sander van der Linden; Paul van Lange; Kim A. Weeden; Michael J. A. Wohl; Jamil Zaki; Sean R. Zion; Robb Willer

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

Jay J. Van Bavel, Katherine Baicker, Paulo S. Boggio, Valerio Capraro, Aleksandra Cichocka, Mina Cikara, Molly J. Crockett, Alia J. Crum, Karen M. Douglas, James N. Druckman, John Drury, Oeindrila Dube, Naomi Ellemers, Eli J. Finkel, James H. Fowler, Michele Gelfand, Shihui Han, S. Alexander Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Shinobu KitayamaDean Mobbs, Lucy E. Napper, Dominic J. Packer, Gordon Pennycook, Ellen Peters, Richard E. Petty, David G. Rand, Stephen D. Reicher, Simone Schnall, Azim Shariff, Linda J. Skitka, Sandra Susan Smith, Cass R. Sunstein, Nassim Tabri, Joshua A. Tucker, Sander van der Linden, Paul van Lange, Kim A. Weeden, Michael J. A. Wohl, Jamil Zaki, Sean R. Zion, Robb Willer

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The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behaviour with the recommendations of epidemiologists and public health experts. Here we discuss evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping. In each section, we note the nature and quality of prior research, including uncertainty and unsettled issues. We identify several insights for effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight important gaps researchers should move quickly to fill in the coming weeks and months.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	460-471
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nature Human Behaviour
Volume	4
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0884-z
Publication status	Published - 30 Apr 2020

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Bavel, J. J. V., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., Crockett, M. J., Crum, A. J., Douglas, K. M., Druckman, J. N., Drury, J., Dube, O., Ellemers, N., Finkel, E. J., Fowler, J. H., Gelfand, M., Han, S., Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J., ... Willer, R. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(5), 460-471. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0884-z

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