Some recent papers on covid behaviour and response

Below in response to a promise to some readers that I would send a set of recent interesting papers on behavioural and social responses to covid.

This is a useful review by Drury and colleagues on Facilitating collective resilience in the public in emergencies: Twelve recommendations based on the social identity approach. John Drury has published a lot on social identity in emergencies.

This is a good overview from Michie and colleagues describing (very clear and simply) the importance of collective messaging/ social norms and avoidance of authoritarian or fear based messages.

Short BMJ blogpost by Reicher and Drury on collective resilience.

BPS blog post by Drury & Reicher: The psychology of physical distancing

Paper on Crowds and Collective Behaviour by Drury and Reicher

Collectively Coping with Coronavirus: Local Community Identification Predicts Giving Support and Lockdown Adherence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collective resilience in times of crisis: Lessons from the literature for socially effective responses to the pandemic

COVID‐19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It’s probably not because of collective psychology

Reicher and Stott: On order and disorder during the COVID‐19 pandemic

ESRI Motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online experiment

 

Crowds and Collective Behavior

 

Review and synthesis of the mass panic and disaster literature in relation to human behaviour 

Review of social influence literature focusing on compliance and conformity (Cialdini & Goldstein)

 

General COVID/ Behavioural Science reviews: 

Michie and West review: Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Brug, J., Aro, A. R., & Richardus, J. H. (2009). Risk perceptions and behaviour: towards pandemic control of emerging infectious diseases.

Glik, D. C. (2007). Risk communication for public health emergencies. Annu. Rev. Public Health, 28, 33-54. 

World Health Organization. (2017). Communicating risk in public health emergencies: a WHO guideline for emergency risk communication (ERC) policy and practice. World Health Organization. Retrieved from: 

Lunn, P. D., Belton, C. A., Lavin, C., McGowan, F. P., Timmons, S., & Robertson, D. A. (2020). Using Behavioral Science to help fight the Coronavirus. Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 3(1).

Van Bavel, J. J., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., ... & Drury, J. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-12.