Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis
requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on …

This paper reviews the findings from the last 20 years on the behavioural factors that
influence farmers, decisions to adopt environmentally sustainable practices. It also proposes …

Mitigating climate change necessitates global cooperation, yet global data on individuals'
willingness to act remain scarce. In this study, we conducted a representative survey across …

A large literature shares the view that social norms shape human cooperation, but without a
clean empirical identification of the relevant norms almost every behaviour can be …

Effective states govern by some combination of enforcement and voluntary compliance. To
contain the COVID-19 pandemic, a critical decision is the extent to which policy makers rely …

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Get ready to change the way you think about
economics. Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical …

Environmental policies are increasingly informed by behavioral economics insights.'Green
nudges' in particular have been suggested as a promising new tool to encourage …

As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as
Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing …

Consider the range of social behaviours we engage in every day. In each case, there are a
multitude of unknowns, reflecting the many sources of uncertainty inherent to social …