This article reviews the current state of knowledge and promising new directions concerning
the psychology of pandemics. Pandemics are disease outbreaks that spread globally …

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), was first detected in Wuhan province in China during
late December 2019 and was designated as being highly infectious. The World Health …

Using the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic as a case study, this
paper engages with debates on the assimilation of Asian Americans into the US …

Despite impressive gains in the spread of quasi-democratic social practices and respect for
human rights witnessed in the past hundred years (eg, Pinker, 2011), intergroup …

Trust in public health officials and the information they provide is essential for the public
uptake of preventative strategies to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. This paper …

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in early 2020, has resulted in massive social,
economic, political and public health upheaval around the world. We established a national …

Sentiment analysis techniques are increasingly used to grasp reactions from social media
users to unexpected and potentially stressful social events. This paper argues that …

A social representations approach offers an empirical utility for addressing myriad social
concerns such as social order, ecological sustainability, national identity, racism, religious …

This article provides an overview of the “behavioural immune system”–a suite of
psychological mechanisms that complements immunological defences by motivating pre …

With mass text digitization (digital libraries, web, etc.), a huge amount of empirical data is
now available for scientific inquiry. In social sciences and humanities, the use of statistical …