Scaling up change: a critical review and practical guide to harnessing social norms for climate action

SM Constantino, G Sparkman… - … science in the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Anthropogenic carbon emissions have the potential to trigger changes in climate and
ecosystems that would be catastrophic for the well-being of humans and other species …

Norm dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social norm emergence, persistence, and change

MJ Gelfand, S Gavrilets, N Nunn - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

L Kemp, C Xu, J Depledge, KL Ebi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for
climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate …

Collectivism predicts mask use during COVID-19

JG Lu, P Jin, AS English - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Since its outbreak, COVID-19 has impacted world regions differentially. Whereas some
regions still record tens of thousands of new infections daily, other regions have contained …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between cultural tightness–looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: a global analysis

MJ Gelfand, JC Jackson, X Pan, D Nau… - The Lancet planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis, yet certain countries have
had far more success in limiting COVID-19 cases and deaths. We suggest that collective …

Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

JJV Bavel, K Baicker, PS Boggio, V Capraro… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries

S Pagliaro, S Sacchi, MG Pacilli, M Brambilla… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since December 2019 has
posed a severe threat to individuals' well-being. While the world at large is waiting that the …

[HTML][HTML] Ignorance by choice: A meta-analytic review of the underlying motives of willful ignorance and its consequences.

L Vu, I Soraperra, M Leib, J van der Weele… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
People sometimes avoid information about the impact of their actions as an excuse to be
selfish. Such “willful ignorance” reduces altruistic behavior and has detrimental effects in …

Why do countries respond differently to COVID-19? A comparative study of Sweden, China, France, and Japan

B Yan, X Zhang, L Wu, H Zhu… - The American review of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are important public health tools to fight against
COVID-19. Governments around the world have instituted a variety of NPIs to modify …

The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation

JF Schulz, D Bahrami-Rad, JP Beauchamp, J Henrich - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A growing body of research suggests that populations around the globe
vary substantially along several important psychological dimensions and that populations …