Angel Sanchez

1 month ago | realinstitutoelcano.org | Francesca Lipari |Lara Lázaro Touza |Gonzalo Escribano |Angel Sanchez |Ángel Sánchez

This Working Paper explores the pivotal role of citizen engagement in advancing climate action and increasing the acceptance of green policies. The study examines the interplay of socioeconomic factors, self-efficacy, and peer influence on citizens’ willingness to adopt and support environmental-friendly policies.

Feb 15, 2024 | nature.com | Aron Szekely |Gizem Arikan |Dana M. Basnight-Brown |Elizaveta Berezina |Juan Camilo Cardenas |Juan Cárdenas | +46 more

AbstractThe emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether social norms also changed. Specifically, we study this question for cultural tightness (the degree to which societies generally have strong norms), specific social norms (e.g. stealing, hand washing), and norms about enforcement, using survey data from 30,431 respondents in 43 countries recorded before and in the early stages following the emergence of COVID-19.

May 13, 2023 | nature.com | Angel Sanchez |Ángel Sánchez

AbstractIn social interactions, human decision-making, attitudes, and beliefs about others coevolve. Their dynamics are affected by cost-benefit considerations, cognitive processes (such as cognitive dissonance, social projecting, and logic constraints), and social influences by peers (via descriptive and injunctive social norms) and by authorities (e.g., educational, cultural, religious, political, administrative, individual or group, real or fictitious).