• Jay J Van Bavel, Katherine Baicker, Paulo S Boggio, Valerio Capraro, Aleksandra Cichocka, Mina Cikara, Molly J Crockett, Alia J Crum, Karen M Douglas, James N Druckman, John Drury, Oeindrila Dube, Naomi Ellemers, Eli J Finkel, James H Fowler, Michele Gelfand, Shihui Han, S Alexander Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Shinobu Kitayama, Dean Mobbs, Lucy E Napper, Dominic J Packer, Gordon Pennycook, Ellen Peters, Richard E Petty, David G Rand, Stephen D Reicher, Simone Schnall, Azim Shariff, Linda J Skitka, Sandra Susan Smith, Cass R Sunstein, Nassim Tabri, Joshua A Tucker, LindenSander van derSVhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-0269-1744Department of Psychology University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK., Paul van Lange, Kim A Weeden, Michael J A Wohl, Jamil Zaki, Sean R Zion, and Robb Willer.
• Department of Psychology & Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA. jay.vanbavel@nyu.edu.
• Nat Hum Behav. 2020 May 1; 4 (5): 460-471.

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behaviour with the recommendations of epidemiologists and public health experts. Here we discuss evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping. In each section, we note the nature and quality of prior research, including uncertainty and unsettled issues. We identify several insights for effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight important gaps researchers should move quickly to fill in the coming weeks and months.

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