The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has driven massive consumption of personal protective
equipment (PPE) worldwide. Single-use face masks are one of the most used PPE to …

We draw on genetics research to argue that complex psychological phenomena are most
likely determined by a multitude of causes and that any individual cause is likely to have …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global societal, economic, and social upheaval
unseen in living memory. There have been substantial cross-national differences in the …

In the absence of a vaccine, governments have focused on behaviour change (eg social
distancing and enhanced hygiene procedures) to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing …

During medical pandemics, protective behaviors need to be motivated by effective
communication, where finding predictors of fear and perceived health is of critical …

Five years after the beginning of the COVID pandemic, one thing is clear: The East Asian
countries of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea outperformed the United States in responding …

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a threat to mental health worldwide. The current
study aims to investigate the role of intolerance of uncertainty in cognitive, emotional and …

With the COVID-19 pandemic, governments implemented successive lockdowns that forced
employees to work from home (WFH) to contain the spread of the coronavirus. This crisis …

Although long postulated, it has been scarcely researched how personality traits play out
differently in distinct situations. We examined if Neuroticism and Extraversion, personality …

We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents
between late March and early April 2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens' and …