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A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19.
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80 authors.
Kai RuggeriDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York City, NY, USA. kai.ruggeri@columbia.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8470-101X
Friederike StockCenter for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
S Alexander HaslamUniversity of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9523-7921
Valerio CapraroUniversity of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0579-0166
Paulo BoggioMackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil.
Naomi EllemersUtrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9810-1165
Aleksandra CichockaUniversity of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Karen M DouglasUniversity of Kent, Canterbury, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0381-6924
David G RandMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8975-2783
Sander van der LindenDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0269-1744
Mina CikaraHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6612-4474
Eli J FinkelDepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0213-5318
James N DruckmanNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1249-6790
Michael J A WohlDepartment of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6945-5562
Richard E PettyDepartment of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2870-8575
Joshua A TuckerDepartment of Politics & Center for Social Media and Politics, New York University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1321-8650
Azim ShariffDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4444-460X
Michele GelfandStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Dominic PackerLehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8420-6548
Jolanda JettenUniversity of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
Paul A M Van LangeInstitute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-7774-6984
Gordon PennycookCornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Ellen PetersCenter for Science Communication Research, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0702-6169
Katherine BaickerUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Alia CrumDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Kim A WeedenCornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9975-8457
Lucy NapperLehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
Nassim TabriDepartment of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Jamil ZakiStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Linda SkitkaUniversity of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Shinobu KitayamaUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9147-7936
Dean MobbsDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Cass R SunsteinHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4194-3008
Sarah Ashcroft-JonesDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York City, NY, USA.
Anna Louise TodsenDepartment of Social Policy and Evaluation, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Ali HajianUniversity of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Sanne VerraUtrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Vanessa BuehlerCowry Consulting, London, UK.
Maja FriedemannUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Marlene HechtCenter for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0700-0073
Rayyan S MobarakDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0452-965X
Ralitsa KarakashevaJunior Researcher Programme, Cambridge, UK.
Markus R TünteDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-4376-2908
Siu Kit YeungDepartment of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
R Shayna RosenbaumDepartment of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5328-8675
Žan LepDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0003-0130-4543
Yuki YamadaFaculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1431-568X
Sa-Kiera Tiarra Jolynn HudsonHaas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6607-1704
Lucía MacchiaCity, University of London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9558-4747
Irina SobolevaDuke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China.
Eugen DimantCenter for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5228-6966
Sandra J GeigerEnvironmental Psychology, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-3262-5609
Hannes JarkePolicy Research Group, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Tobias WingenUniversity of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1559-859X
Jana B BerkesselMannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5053-6901
Silvana MarevaMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Lucy McGillUniversity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Francesca PapaOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France.
Bojana VećkalovUniversity of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8477-1261
Zeina AfifThe World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
Eike K BuabangTrinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Marna LandmanGordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Felice TaveraDepartment of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Jack L AndrewsDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0180-185X
Aslı BursalıoğluDepartment of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Zorana ZupanInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Lisa WagnerJacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1925-2676
Joaquín NavajasLaboratorio de Neurociencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-8765-037X
Marek VrankaCharles University, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-3413-9062
David KasdanSungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Patricia ChenUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Kathleen R HudsonUniversity of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Lindsay M NovakUniversity of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Paul TeasUniversity of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Nikolay R RachevDepartment of General, Experimental, Developmental, and Health Psychology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0002-5654-2883
Matteo M GalizziDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, London, UK.
Katherine L MilkmanThe Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9706-4830
Marija PetrovićDepartment of Psychology & Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Jay J Van BavelDepartment of Psychology & Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2520-0442
Robb WillerDepartment of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3404-6472
Funding
CIHRCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorEuropean Research CouncilNational Science Foundation
Abstract
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions
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Behavioral SciencesCOVID-19Evidence-Based PracticeHealth PolicyPandemicsPolicy MakingCommunicationCultureHumansLeadershipPublic HealthSocial Norms
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