A manifesto for applying behavioural science

M Hallsworth - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

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 …

Why social relationships are important for physical health: A systems approach to understanding and modifying risk and protection

J Holt-Lunstad - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Social relationships are adaptive and crucial for survival. This review presents existing
evidence indicating that our social connections to others have powerful influences on health …

Social network interventions for health behaviours and outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

RF Hunter, K de la Haye, JM Murray, J Badham… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background There has been a growing interest in understanding the effects of social
networks on health-related behaviour, with a particular backdrop being the emerging …

Induction of social contagion for diverse outcomes in structured experiments in isolated villages

EM Airoldi, NA Christakis - Science, 2024 - science.org
Certain people occupy topological positions within social networks that enhance their
effectiveness at inducing spillovers. We mapped face-to-face networks among 24,702 …

Can network theory-based targeting increase technology adoption?

L Beaman, A BenYishay, J Magruder… - American Economic …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
Can targeting information to network-central farmers induce more adoption of a new
agricultural technology? By combining social network data and a field experiment in 200 …

[SÁCH][B] Blueprint: The evolutionary origins of a good society

NA Christakis - 2019 - books.google.com
" A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology,
economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more"(Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint …

Social networks and health: New developments in diffusion, online and offline

J Zhang, D Centola - Annual Review of Sociology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The relationship between social networks and health encompasses everything from the flow
of pathogens and information to the diffusion of beliefs and behaviors. This review …

[HTML][HTML] Global impacts of pre-and post-COVID-19 pandemic: Focus on socio-economic consequences

NTP Mishra, SS Das, S Yadav, W Khan, M Afzal… - Sensors …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract On March 11, 2020, the novel Corona virus disease (COVID-19), was described as
a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO). Globally, the COVID-19 has not only …

The" majority illusion" in social networks

K Lerman, X Yan, XZ Wu - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Individual's decisions, from what product to buy to whether to engage in risky behavior, often
depend on the choices, behaviors, or states of other people. People, however, rarely have …