Ondrej Buchel
A5075838112- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Educational Innovations and Challenges
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Regional Development and Policy
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
- Risk Perception and Management
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Media and Politics
Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2022-2025
Slovak Academy of Sciences
2022-2025
Tilburg University
2020-2022
University of St Andrews
2022
University of Trento
2020
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing stricter hygiene) endorsed policy closing bars restaurants) the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who reported identifying...
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people their beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interventions' effectiveness was small, largely limited nonclimate skeptics,...
Abstract Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of best available evidence, especially during crises. However, recent years epistemic authority science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public scientists. We interrogated these with a preregistered 68-country survey 71,922 respondents and found that most countries, people agree should engage more society policymaking. variations between within...
Abstract Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, distrust populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science society. To help researchers analyse science-society nexus across different geographical cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in dataset of 71,922 participants 68 countries. The data were...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric societies. One central strategies for managing public health throughout been through persuasive messaging collective behaviour change. To help scholars better understand moral psychology behind behaviour, we present a dataset comprising 51,404 individuals from 69 countries. This was collected International Collaboration on Social & Moral Psychology project (ICSMP COVID-19). science survey...
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors that associated with people reported adopting public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing stricter hygiene) endorsed policy closing bars restaurants) the early stage of pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric societies. One central strategies for managing public health throughout been through persuasive messaging collective behavior change. To help scholars better understand moral psychology behind behavior, we present a dataset comprising 51,404 individuals from 69 countries. This was collected International Collaboration on Social Moral Psychology project (ICSMP COVID-19). science survey...
This 68-country survey (n = 71,922) examines how people encounter information about science and communicate it with others, identifies cross-country differences, tests the extent to which economic sociopolitical conditions predict such differences. We find that social media are most used sources of in countries, except those democratic-corporatist systems where news tend be more widely. People collectivist societies less outspoken daily life, whereas low education is associated higher...
System justification theory proposes that people are motivated to perceive the existing social system as fair, legitimate, and desirable. However, status‐legitimacy effect, understood most disadvantaged living in unequal contexts experiencing this need strongly, has only found mixed support empirical works. This article presents a comprehensive test of original reading hypothesis which implied those with lower objective status justify respecified version posits subjective powerlessness be...
Cooley et al. and Hodson Doucher show that individuals, individuals within groups, groups evoke different levels of perceived humanity, these differences affect sympathy willingness to help. In three preregistered experiments, we successfully replicate findings in a cultural context (Slovakia). We then test whether manipulating depictions also affects support for policies benefit the target. focus on disadvantaged ethnic minority (the Roma). Finally, investigate internal (under beneficiary’s...
Evaluations of beneficiary groups matter for individual levels policy support. A variety cues and heuristics shape evaluations. One particularly consequential heuristic concerns the beneficiary’s perceived level humanity. Recent work shows that individuals, individuals within (group compositions), unitary evoke different humanity, these differences have downstream effects on sympathy willingness to help. We replicate findings, then extend them government find group compositions higher...