COVID-19

New research provides evidence that Americans' media consumption habits and trust in government predict their level of knowledge about COVID-19. The study appears in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. "We chose to undertake this study to better understand the role...

A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation can help mitigate the negative mental health consequences of the pandemic. The study was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The COVID-19 pandemic was an unforeseen public health...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed nearly every aspect of our lives. Our dreams are no different. Soon after the first lockdowns started, people reported having more dreams than before, with different content. This was explained by the fact that many...

New research sheds light on how a person's moral compass guides their decision to comply with efforts to halt the transmission of COVID-19. The study was published in Personality and Individual Differences. The author of the study was interested in...

New research has identified some individual and environmental characteristics associated with adopting unhealthy lifestyle changes amid the coronavirus pandemic. The findings, published in Frontiers in Psychology, suggest that uncontrolled fear responses may play an important role. "As health psychologists, we...

The coronavirus pandemic may have altered how many people in the United States view the poor, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The study indicates that people became more likely to blame external factors...

New research provides evidence that psychological factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic may be risk factors for substance use initiation. The study has been published in the journal Psychiatry Research. "Given that there is so much unknown about COVID-19 and...

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found evidence to suggest that acute anxiety reached an all-time high in the United States following the declaration of COVID-19 as a national emergency. This evidence came from an unusual source of data...

Conservatives tend to view COVID-19 health guidelines, such as wearing a mask in public, as less impactful to others than their more liberal counterparts, according to a new study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. The...

People with a greater sense of entitlement are less likely to comply with COVID-19 health guidelines, such as washing their hands more often and social distancing, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Personality and Individual Differences....

Engaging in moderate intensity physical activities such as bicycling could help protect working mothers from the negative effects of parenting stress amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research published in the journal Mental Health and Physical Activity. "The COVID-19...

The Centers for Disease Control and other health authorities have urged Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But new research, which analyzed data from 15 million GPS smartphone coordinates, indicates that people in counties...

A new study published in Royal Society Open Science found that citizens who lack confidence in their government's response to the coronavirus outbreak show heightened fear and paranoia. This heightened fear is then linked to increased distress. It is clear...

Support for President Donald Trump is linked to intentions to defy social distancing guidelines meant to slow the spread of COVID-19, according to new research published in the journal Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. On March 11, 2020,...

Men and women are equally likely to wear face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research. But the study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, indicates that men and women tend to have different reasons for...