Status quo bias drives public support for drug policy in the USA
Gabor Simonovits
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02471-y Support for drug policies reflects status quo bias: the public favours legal drugs more than hypothetical drugs with identical properties. The reverse holds for illegal drugs. Harm information reduces this bias for legal drugs, but not illegal ones.