COVID-19

New research suggests that dispositional awe (meaning the tendency to experience awe) is linked to resilience in the face of COVID-19. The study, which has been published in Psychological Reports, found that this relationship was independent of religiosity.

New research provides evidence that when then-President Donald Trump got sick with COVID-19, it made conservatives more likely to accept that the virus is real. However, the infection and subsequent hospitalization didn't change conservatives' views on how dangerous the virus...

Research conducted during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns showed that women, students, and those reporting problems at home had a higher risk of anxiety. In addition, women, students, those having problems at home, people with less help from the outside, and...

Research published in Personality and Individual Differences explored the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic, extraversion, burnout, and choosing to resign. The findings indicate that although extraverted individuals are more likely to struggle with pandemic-induced social isolation, they have the social...

The COVID-19 lockdown caused a forced closure of society, confining many people to their homes with little to do. With this lack of activity came negative mental health outcomes. Using this unique situation, a study published in International Journal of...

A study of parents of children aged 5-11 in Italy showed that black-and-white thinking was associated with the tendency to believe in conspiracies. This was in turn associated with a negative attitude towards vaccinating children against COVID-19. The study was...

New research sheds light on the role of personality traits in reducing the spread of COVID-19. The findings, published in the Journal of Individual Differences, indicate that "dark" personality traits are associated with negative perceptions of mask wearing, while openness...

A new study published in Environmental Research and Public Health suggests that individuals who struggle with problem-solving and demonstrate absolutist thinking, political conservatism, and xenophobia are more likely to refuse to get vaccinated. These findings indicate that a focus on...

Psychologists have found that the "Dark Triad" of personality -- psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism -- is associated with reduced engagement with COVID-19 prevention behaviors during the pandemic. But, according to new research, this does not appear to be entirely true...

People who frequently interact with low-quality news websites tend to express more reservations about COVID-19 vaccines, according to new research that examined behavior on the social media platform Twitter. The findings have been published in the scientific journal PNAS Nexus.

New research indicates that the stress and anxiety caused by COVID-19 is affecting the mental health of employees in a significant way. The findings, which appear in Occupational Health Science, provide important insight into the deleterious psychological impact of the...

The desire to avoid regret may be powerful enough to sway people to change their health behaviors, according to recent findings published in Computers in Human Behavior. The study revealed that people were more inclined to get the COVID-19 booster shot...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been widely divisive -- but could that divisiveness reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine? A study published in Brain Behavior and Immunity suggests that a lack of social cohesion decreases the antibody response to the coronavirus...

A study published in the journal Anthrozoös suggests that pet ownership is tied to improved well-being during the pandemic, but only among people with low resilience. For people with high levels of resilience, owning a pet was actually linked to lower...

Nudging is a means of indirectly influencing human behaviour by changing the choice architecture made available to the decision maker. A recent study published in Nature examined the efficacy of sending short messages (i.e., nudges) to individuals who did not...