Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • 10 - Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • from Part I - Evidence from Experiments and Behavioural Insights
  • Edited by Joan Costa-Font, London School of Economics and Political Science, Matteo M. Galizzi, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
    Published online:
    31 January 2025
    Print publication:
    02 May 2024, pp 191-219

  • Summary

    In this chapter we distil the available systematic evidence of the unintended consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on human behaviour, highlighting the contributions of behavioural science and the lessons learned from this multi-dimensional crisis. In light of this, behavioural science and policymaking could improve science communication and minimise the impact of false information, by leveraging various insights such as (i) nudging people to consider the accuracy of information and credibility of sources – for example, employing accuracy reminders; (ii) communicating risk more efficiently - for example,, using natural frequencies versus probabilities; and (iii) pre-exposing people to misinformation - for example,, adopting pre-emptive debunking. Behavioural science should thus continue informing the multi-disciplinary discussion about policy responses to future pandemics by systematically capturing and sharing the evidence about the direct and the spillover effects of future health crises on people’s health and behaviour.