Authors
Kai Ruggeri, Friederike Stock, S Alexander Haslam, Valerio Capraro, Paulo Boggio, Naomi Ellemers, Aleksandra Cichocka, Karen M Douglas, David G Rand, Sander Van der Linden, Mina Cikara, Eli J Finkel, James N Druckman, Michael JA Wohl, Richard E Petty, Joshua A Tucker, Azim Shariff, Michele Gelfand, Dominic Packer, Jolanda Jetten, Paul AM Van Lange, Gordon Pennycook, Ellen Peters, Katherine Baicker, Alia Crum, Kim A Weeden, Lucy Napper, Nassim Tabri, Jamil Zaki, Linda Skitka, Shinobu Kitayama, Dean Mobbs, Cass R Sunstein, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Anna Louise Todsen, Ali Hajian, Sanne Verra, Vanessa Buehler, Maja Friedemann, Marlene Hecht, Rayyan S Mobarak, Ralitsa Karakasheva, Markus R Tünte, Siu Kit Yeung, R Shayna Rosenbaum, Žan Lep, Yuki Yamada, Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Lucía Macchia, Irina Soboleva, Eugen Dimant, Sandra J Geiger, Hannes Jarke, Tobias Wingen, Jana B Berkessel, Silvana Mareva, Lucy McGill, Francesca Papa, Bojana Većkalov, Zeina Afif, Eike K Buabang, Marna Landman, Felice Tavera, Jack L Andrews, Aslı Bursalıoğlu, Zorana Zupan, Lisa Wagner, Joaquín Navajas, Marek Vranka, David Kasdan, Patricia Chen, Kathleen R Hudson, Lindsay M Novak, Paul Teas, Nikolay R Rachev, Matteo M Galizzi, Katherine L Milkman, Marija Petrović, Jay J Van Bavel, Robb Willer
Publication date
2024/1/4
Journal
Nature
Volume
625
Issue
7993
Pages
134-147
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations (‘claims’) detailing how evidence from behavioural science could contribute to efforts to reduce impacts and end the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we assess 747 pandemic-related research articles that empirically investigated those claims. We report the scale of evidence and whether evidence supports them to indicate applicability for policymaking. Two independent teams, involving 72 reviewers, found evidence for 18 of 19 claims, with both teams finding evidence supporting 16 (89%) of those 18 claims. The strongest evidence supported claims that anticipated culture, polarization and misinformation would be associated with policy effectiveness. Claims suggesting trusted leaders and positive social norms increased adherence to …
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