Tendiendo puentes entre las ciencias sociales y la ciudadanía: cómo comunicar evidencia científica

Jordi Brandts Bernad; Isabel Busom i Piquer; Cristina López-Mayán

Tendiendo puentes entre las ciencias sociales y la ciudadanía: cómo comunicar evidencia científica

Jordi Brandts ^[3] ; Isabel Busom ^[1] ; Cristina López-Mayan ^[2]
1. [1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  
  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  
  Barcelona, España
2. [2] Universitat de Barcelona
  
  Universitat de Barcelona
  
  Barcelona, España
3. [3] Instituto de Análisis Económico (CSIC) y Barcelona School of Economics
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Localización: Información Comercial Española, ICE: Revista de economía, ISSN 0019-977X, ISSN-e 2340-8790, Nº 941, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Economía del comportamiento para mejorar las políticas públicas II. Aplicaciones y casos en el mundo real), págs. 59-74
Idioma: español
DOI: 10.32796/ice.2025.941.7955
Títulos paralelos:
- Building Bridges Between the Social Sciences and Citizens: How to Communicate Scientific Evidence
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Resumen
- español
  Presentamos un panorama de la investigación experimental sobre cómo comunicar a la ciudadanía la evidencia científica sobre los efectos que tienen diversas políticas públicas, para que aquella pueda tomar decisiones informadas. La existencia de creencias infundadas sobre el funcionamiento de algunas políticas, debidas a menudo a una visión intuitiva y parcial de las mismas, conduce a que se apoyen políticas que reducen el bienestar de la sociedad. Revisamos las bases psicológicas y sociales de dichas creencias, y presentamos evidencia sobre el impacto que tienen diversos formatos de comunicación de la evidencia científica sobre las mismas. Para algunas políticas, como la de control de alquileres, el formato visual produce un mayor abandono de creencias infundadas que el formato escrito.
- English
  We present an overview of experimental research on how to communicate scientific evidence about the effects of various public policies to citizens, so that they can make informed decisions. The existence of misbeliefs about how some policies work, often due to an intuitive and partial view of them, leads to support for policies that reduce society’s well-being. We review the psychological and social foundations of such beliefs, and present evidence on the impact that different formats of communicating scientific evidence have on them. For some policies, such as rent control, the visual format produces a greater abandonment of misbeliefs than the written format.
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