ReviewNature human behaviour2020
Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.
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Review in Nature human behaviour, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04870307 (Community-engaged Approaches to Testing in Community and Healthcare Settings for Underserved Populations), which is not on this map. Cited by 1,847 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Community-engaged Approaches to Testing in Community and Healthcare Settings for Underserved Populations
Who cites it
1,847 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Key factors for promoting protective behaviours in future pandemics: an umbrella review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Pooled it
- Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Response in a Multi-Hazard Context: COVID-19 Pandemic as a Point of Reference.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness Outcomes from a Social Network Diffusion Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination among Individuals Impacted by the Criminal Legal System in Urban U.S. Cities.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Trial
- Using positive imagination to reduce negativity in information processing and hesitant attitudes towards childhood COVID-19 vaccinations in parents: A randomized controlled trial.British journal of health psychology · 2025Trial
- Effects of a Theory- and Evidence-Based, Motivational Interviewing-Oriented Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistant on Vaccine Attitudes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- COVID vaccination and economic game decisions: The role of analytical thinking.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- Leveraging local knowledge for crisis management: a practice-based approach to managing uncertainty in healthcare during COVID-19.BMJ leader · 2026Article
- Beyond social cues: the normative influence of social referents on COVID-19 vaccine compliance among Latino day laborers.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Consistency in North Korean Medical Academic Research Topics During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Text Mining Analysis.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Understanding moral trade-offs in pandemic response: A discrete choice experiment on avian influenza policies.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Intragroup Judgements of Norm Violators Under the Threat of COVID-19.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Towards naturalistic social neuroscience: A multi-level framework integrating real-world phenotyping, neurobiology, and computational mechanisms.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Japan's health system toward 2040: structural challenges and a renewed social contract.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Review
- Personalized feedback about immunity corrects risk misestimation and motivates vaccination.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Depressive symptoms hopelessness self-efficacy and COVID-19-related stressors among pregnant women in Hungary across two pandemic waves.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Long COVID and Its Impact on Daily Functioning: Findings from the Si-Panda Behavioural Insights Survey in Slovenia.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2026Article
- Interdependence explains how and when crises impact social cohesion.Communications psychology · 2026Review
- Simulating population compliance with pandemic interventions using large language models.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Contextual stressors and multidimensional mental health among university students during the COVID-19 period: a construct-level network analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Article
1,787 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
42 authors.
Jay J Van BavelDepartment of Psychology & Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA. jay.vanbavel@nyu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2520-0442
Katherine BaickerUniversity of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5960-3058
Paulo S BoggioSocial and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Center for Health and Biological Sciences, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6109-0447
Valerio CapraroDepartment of Economics, Middlesex University London, London, UK.
Aleksandra CichockaSchool of Psychology, University of Kent, Kent, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1703-1586
Mina CikaraDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6612-4474
Molly J CrockettDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8800-410X
Alia J CrumDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Karen M DouglasSchool of Psychology, University of Kent, Kent, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0381-6924
James N DruckmanDepartment of Political Science, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
John DruryDepartment of Social Psychology, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7748-5128
Oeindrila DubeUniversity of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, IL, USA.
Naomi EllemersFaculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Eli J FinkelDepartment of Psychology and the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
James H FowlerDivision of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health and Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7795-1638
Michele GelfandDepartment of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9780-9230
Shihui HanSchool of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3350-5104
S Alexander HaslamUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9523-7921
Jolanda JettenSchool of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7588-5355
Shinobu KitayamaDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9147-7936
Dean MobbsDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences and Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1175-3772
Lucy E NapperDepartment of Psychology and Health, Medicine & Society Program, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
Dominic J PackerDepartment of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8420-6548
Gordon PennycookHill/Levene Schools of Business, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-6143
Ellen PetersSchool of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0702-6169
Richard E PettyDepartment of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2870-8575
David G RandSloan School and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8975-2783
Stephen D ReicherSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Simone SchnallDepartment of Psychology University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4672-7534
Azim ShariffDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4444-460X
Linda J SkitkaDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Sandra Susan SmithDepartment of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Cass R SunsteinHarvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-3008
Nassim TabriDepartment of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7085-9350
Joshua A TuckerDepartment of Politics, New York University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-8650
Sander van der LindenDepartment of Psychology University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0269-1744
Paul van LangeInstitute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Kim A WeedenDepartment of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-8457
Michael J A WohlDepartment of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6945-5562
Jamil ZakiDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Sean R ZionDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0802-2066
Robb WillerDepartment of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. willer@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3404-6472
Funding
The Neurobiology of Social Decision-Making: Social Inference and ContextP50MH094258 · NIMH · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ADOLPHS, RALPH · 2012 to 2021
$18.6MNational Science Foundation (NSF) BCS-1551559National Science Foundation (NSF) SES2022478U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 2P50MH094258
Abstract
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.
Indexed as
CoronavirusHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHuman ActivitiesQuarantineAdaptation, PsychologicalBetacoronavirusCommunicable Disease ControlCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Decision MakingEpidemiological MonitoringGlobal HealthHumansLeadershipPandemicsPneumonia, Viral
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