ArticleJournal of economic behavior & organization2022
Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Economic shock and the erosion of COVID-19 precautionary behavior in Canada during the early pandemic.PloS one · 2026Article
- The impact of confounders, spillovers and interactions on social distancing policy effects estimates.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association between trust in the incumbent president and COVID-19 preventive behaviors during the pandemic in four Latin American countries.Cadernos de saude publica · 2025Article
- Evolution of Well-Being and Associated Factors during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2025Article
- Community Perceptions and Experiences of the South African Government's Response to the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Johannesburg, South Africa.Social and health sciences · 2024Article
- How to activate threat perceptions in behavior research: A simple technique for inducing health and resource scarcity threats.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Descriptive norms can "backfire" in hyper-polarized contexts.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Evidence from 43 countries that disease leaves cultures unchanged in the short-term.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Risk, time preferences, trustworthiness and COVID-19 preventive behavior: evidence from France.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024Article
- Policy makers believe money motivates more than it does.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- The contribution of risk perception and social norms to reported preventive behaviour against selected vector-borne diseases in Guyana.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Variation in the stringency of COVID-19 public health measures on self-reported health, stress, and overall wellbeing in Canada.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Face mask is an efficient tool to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and some factors increase the probability of its adoption.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The political economy of lockdown: Does free media matter?European journal of political economy · 2023Article
- Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany.Journal of economic inequality · 2023Article
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Abstract
We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents between late March and early April 2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens' and governments' responses at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most respondents reported holding normative beliefs in support of COVID-19 containment measures, as well as high rates of adherence to these measures. They also believed that their government and their country's citizens were not doing enough and underestimated the degree to which others in their country supported strong behavioral and policy responses to the pandemic. Normative beliefs were strongly associated with adherence, as well as beliefs about others' and the government's response. Lockdowns were associated with greater optimism about others' and the government's response, and improvements in measures of perceived mental well-being; these effects tended to be larger for those with stronger normative beliefs. Our findings highlight how social norms can arise quickly and effectively to support cooperation at a global scale.
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