COVID-19

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...

A longitudinal study among a Polish sample has uncovered a consistent, bidirectional relationship between prosociality and willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Toward the end of the study period, conspiracy mentality and right-wing authoritarianism emerged as negative predictors of willingness...

Differences in personality traits that can explain why people do and do not comply with COVID-19 protective measures (e.g., social distancing, mask wearing). New research published in Personality and Individual Differences found that aspects of psychopathy and sadism were associated...

When we compared the early life histories of those who were vaccine resistant to those who were not we found many vaccine-resistant adults had histories of adverse experiences during childhood, including abuse, maltreatment, deprivation or neglect, or having an alcoholic...

People who have had COVID-19 tend to report having more nightmares than people who have not been infected by the virus, according to research published in Nature and Science of Sleep.

A new psychological study from the CV19 Heroes project has been published with the international journal Social Science & Medicine (SSM) Mental Health. In this study, we aimed to understand what factors may be associated with the welfare of frontline...