The use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies is linked to worse coping during the first year of the pandemic
A Swiss study has shed light on how the use of specific emotion regulation strategies affected people’s coping during different...
Exposure to humorous memes about anti-vaxxers boosts intention to get a COVID-19 vaccine, study finds
A series of studies revealed that exposure to sarcastic memes about anti-vaxxers increased UK residents’ intention to receive a COVID-19...
New research suggests there is a complicated relationship between narcissism and mask wearing
Are narcissists less likely to wear a mask? A study published in Current Psychology suggests that the relationship is a...
Having a stronger national identity predicts greater public health support during the COVID-19 pandemic
A large-scale international project that included data from 67 countries and approximately 50,000 people found that individuals who identified with...
Worrying about COVID-19 predicts fear of being single and changes in partner preferences, study finds
During the lockdowns, individuals were asked to stay home and refrain from socializing face-to-face; however, there was an increased use...
COVID-related stress may be a direct contributor to irregular menstrual cycle symptoms, study suggests
In a new study, Noelle Ozimek and colleagues aimed to empirically investigate self-reported changes in women’s menstrual cycles before and...
Cognitive deficits after severe COVID-19 are equivalent to 20 years of ageing
Severe COVID results in cognitive impairment similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age and is the...
Longitudinal study finds that prosociality is consistently associated with greater willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine
A longitudinal study among a Polish sample has uncovered a consistent, bidirectional relationship between prosociality and willingness to receive a...
Dark personality traits linked to health and safety risk taking, which can explain noncompliance with COVID-19 measures
Differences in personality traits that can explain why people do and do not comply with COVID-19 protective measures (e.g., social...
New study links negative childhood experiences to vaccine resistance in adulthood
When we compared the early life histories of those who were vaccine resistant to those who were not we found...
COVID-19 infection linked to increased nightmare frequency
People who have had COVID-19 tend to report having more nightmares than people who have not been infected by the...
New study underlines the importance of solidarity for frontline worker welfare
A new psychological study from the CV19 Heroes project has been published with the international journal Social Science & Medicine...
New research uncovers a surprising link between conscientiousness and vaccine hesitancy
A new study has identified several psychological factors, including psychopathic tendencies and narcissism, that are related to vaccine hesitancy. The...
Intelligent people became less happy during the pandemic — but the opposite was true for unintelligent people
During COVID-19, more intelligent individuals became less happy than less intelligent individuals for the first time in their lives. In...
Large study finds closed-mindedness predicts non-compliance with preventive COVID-19 measures
Closed-minded individuals are less likely to adhere to COVID-19 preventive behaviors, such as physical distancing, according to new research that...
