Many EU/EEA countries have applied behavioural and social science capacities (“Behavioural Insights”) to provide recommendations for decision-makers for the planning of actions, policies and communications in response to COVID-19...
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A case study in four Member States on embedding behavioural insights into public health policy-making
The COVID-19 pandemic that turned the world upside down in early 2020 also gave rise to an “infodemic” of misinformation and conspiracy theories. This chapter tackles three issues. We...
We present an experiment to evaluate the impact of providing digital access to food information via QR codes. We measure consumers’ willingness to access digital food information...
This Science for Policy Report contributes to the policy debate on the importance of securing enough blood and blood products to maintain a functional healthcare system. The Science for Policy Report outlines...
This paper presents the Commission's and the JRC's work using behavioural insights to inform policies tackling, directly or indirectly, citizens' well-being and mental health.
During the past two years, a large quantity of research has been conducted in different countries with various populations to study the behavioural factors that explain when and why...
This addendum of the JRC Science for Policy report “Front-of-pack nutrition labelling schemes: a comprehensive review” provides an update of the former publication regarding the effects of front-of-pack nutrition labelling...
The goal of this report is to take stock of the early behavioural sciences literature on COVID-19 misinformation. Specifically, this report addresses the following three main questions. (1) Who was...
A pulse survey on nearly 6000 respondents from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Poland, France, and Sweden took place in May 2022, investigating the beliefs and perceptions of EU...