Lessons From the UK's Lockdown: Discourse on Behavioural Science in Times of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: In recent years behavioural science has quickly become embedded in national level governance. As the contributions of behavioural science to the UK's COVID-19 response policies in early 2020 became apparent, a debate emerged in the British media about its involvement. This served as a unique opportunity to capture public discourse and representation of behavioural science in a fast-track, high-stake context. We aimed at identifying elements which foster and detract from trust and credibility in emergent scientific contributions to policy making. With this in mind, in Study 1 we use corpus linguistics and network analysis to map the narrative around the key behavioural science actors and concepts which were discussed in the 647 news articles extracted from the 15

SUBMITTER: Sanders JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8247580 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature