COVID-19

New research helps to explain the association between political conservatism and riskier pandemic lifestyles. According to new research published in Discover Social Science and Health, political conservatives tend to be less empathetic, hold more authoritarian beliefs, and feel less threatened...

New research published in Behavioral Sciences provides evidence that information and communications technologies helped to protect students' sense of community amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic has shown an increase in depressive symptoms and anxiety. The pandemic has also spurred heavy discussion on social media platforms which has given rise to the prevalence of COVID-19 related conspiracy beliefs....

The risks of being diagnosed with some disorders, such as psychosis, seizures or epilepsy, brain fog and dementia, though mostly still low, remained elevated throughout the two years after COVID infection.

Many people feel their well-being and mental state suffered as a result of being locked inside during the early waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, but could stricter and longer lockdowns actually have positive effects on people’s mental health? A study...

A recent study found that contaminated objects were better recalled than non-contaminated objects in the context of COVID-19. This study was published in Evolutionary Psychology.

A new study published in Personality and Individual Differences expands our understanding of how ideology shapes US citizens’ attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine policies. While right-wing authoritarianism and libertarianism predicted decreased support for punitive policies against unvaccinated individuals, left-wing authoritarianism predicted increased support.

Intellectual humility affects how people make moral decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a cross-cultural experiment published in The Journal of Positive Psychology.

A Swiss study has shed light on how the use of specific emotion regulation strategies affected people’s coping during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adaptive strategies like positive reappraisal mitigated anxiety and depression during the early phase of the...

A series of studies revealed that exposure to sarcastic memes about anti-vaxxers increased UK residents’ intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The researchers suggest that the humorous memes were able to bypass the typical defense processes of people who are...

Are narcissists less likely to wear a mask? A study published in Current Psychology suggests that the relationship is a bit more complicated that one may think. Different facets of narcissism are associated with different responds to mask-wearing expectations.

A large-scale international project that included data from 67 countries and approximately 50,000 people found that individuals who identified with their nation more strongly engaged in COVID-19 public health behaviors and supported COVID-related public health policies to a greater extent....

During the lockdowns, individuals were asked to stay home and refrain from socializing face-to-face; however, there was an increased use of online dating services. Study author Cassandra Alexopoulos and her colleagues were interested in investigating whether the COVID-19 pandemic has...

In a new study, Noelle Ozimek and colleagues aimed to empirically investigate self-reported changes in women’s menstrual cycles before and during the COVID-19 pandemic to determine if women’s menstrual cycles are more irregular during the pandemic than before. Their findings...

Severe COVID results in cognitive impairment similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age and is the equivalent of losing ten IQ points, our latest research shows. The effects are still detectable more than six months after...