Competence Centre on Behavioural Insights

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 explore the common attributes of political conflicts in which scientific findings have a central role, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, but also drawing on long-standing...

Misinformation surrounding crises poses a significant challenge for public institutions. Understanding the relative effectiveness of different types of interventions to counter misinformation, and which segments of the population are...

Recognising that advances in behavioural, decision and social sciences demonstrate that we are not purely rational beings, this report brings new insights into our political behaviour...

→ To fight misinformation, policymakers can use debunking (exposing misinformation and explaining why it is false) and prebunking (training people to recognise misinformation and defend themselves...

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...

This literature review unveils possible behavioural causes of violence against women and presents behavioural levers to its prevention and reduction, along with general principles for effective communication...

The dissemination of false information, either without deliberate intent (misinformation) or with malicious intention (disinformation), is a growing global issue. Behavioural science shows promise as one tool...

Effective science communication is challenging when scientific messages are informed by a continually updating evidence base and must often compete against misinformation. We argue...

Concern for the environment is rising. This highlights the importance of reliably and uniformly measuring and communicating the environmental impacts of products to consumers. The key objective of the study is to gather insight into the most effective...