Research

Selected Publications

Constantino, S.M., Pianta, S., Rinscheid, A., Frey, R., Weber, E.U. (2022) “Personal hardship narrows the partisan gap in COVID-19 and climate change responses” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(46).

Yang, L., Constantino, S.M., Grenfell, B.T., Weber, E.U., Levin, S.A., and Vasconcelos, V.V. (2022) “Sociocultural determinants of global mask-wearing behavior” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(41).

Constantino, S.M., Sparkman, G., Kraft-Todd, G.T., Bicchieri, C., Centola, D., Shell-Duncan, B., Vogt, S., and Weber, E.U. (2022). “Scaling up change: A critical review and practical guide to harnessing social norms for climate action” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 23(2); pp. 50-97

Ehret, S., Constantino, S.M., Weber, E.U., Efferson, C., and Vogt, S. (2022) “Group identities can undermine social tipping after intervention” Nature Human Behaviour.

Xiao, A.Z., Sparkman, G., Constantino, S.M. (2022) “Like me or near me? Assessing which norm referents best promote energy conservation in a field study” [Preprint]

Qiu, Z., Espinoza, B., Vasconcelos, V., Chen, C., Constantino, S.M., Crabtree, S., Yang, L., Vullikanti, A., Chen, J., Weibull, J., Basu, K., Dixit, A., Levin, S.A., and Marathe, M.V. (2022). “Understanding the coevolution of mask wearing and epidemics: A network perspective” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(26).

Krueger, E.H., Constantino, S.M., Centeno, M.A., Elmqvist, T., Weber, E.U., and Levin, S.A. (2022) “Governing sustainable transformations of urban social-ecological-technological systems” Urban Sustainability 2(1).

Constantino, S.M., Pianta, S., Rinscheid, A., Frey, R., Weber, E.U. (2021) “The Source is the Message: The impact of institutional signals on climate change-related norm perceptions and behaviors” Climatic Change 166(35).

Sisco, M., Constantino, S.M., Gao, Y., Tavoni, M., Cooperman, A.D., Bosseti, V., Weber, E.U. (2021) “A Finite Pool of Worry or a Finite Pool of Attention?: Evidence and Qualifications.” [Preprint]

Vasconcelos, V.V., Constantino, S.M., Dannenberg, A., Lumkowsky, M., Weber, E.U., and Levin, S.A. (2021) “Segregation and clustering of preferences erode socially beneficial coordination” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(50).

Constantino, S.M. and Weber, E.U. (2021) “Decision-making under the deep uncertainty of climate change: The psychological and political agency of narratives” Current Opinion in Psychology, 42.

Constantino, S.M., Cooperman, A.D., Moreira, and T.M.Q. (2021) “Voting in a global pandemic: Assessing dueling influences of Covid-19 turnout” Social Science Quarterly.

Constantino, S.M., Schlüter, M., Weber, E.U., and Wijermans, N. (2021) “Cognition and behavior in context: A framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems” Sustainability Science, 16(5).

Balakrishnan, S., Constantino, S.M., Nunez, S. “Building a Helicopter: The COVID-19 pandemic exposes the implementation challenges of a widespread cash transfer policy.” Jain Family Institute White Paper

Selected Grants

2021-23

Collaborative Proposal. Responses to complex disruptive events: Cognition in a socio-political context. National Science Foundation, SES-DRMS. PIs: Constantino, S.M., Oppenheimer. M., Weber, E.U., Shwom. R., Cooperman, A.

Collaborative Proposal. Household Response to an Income Support Policy: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in The City of Compton. J-PAL North America’s Work of the Future. PI: Jonathan Morduch; Co-PI: Constantino, S.M., Balakrishnan, S., Chan, S., Haushofer, J.

2020-22

RAPID. Public Responses to Personal and Societal Risk: Attitudes and Behavior on COVID-19 and Global Change. National Science Foundation, SES-DRMS. Grant Co-author. PIs: Weber, E.U., Keohane, R.O.

2020-21

Data Driven Social Science Initiative. Princeton University.