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 J A Wohl, Richard E Petty, Joshua A Tucker, Azim Shariff, Michele Gelfand, Dominic Packer, Jolanda Jetten, Paul A M 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
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1 , with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2 . In April 2020, an influential paper3 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...
December 13, 2023: Nature