Lee, J. (2020). Mental health effects of school closures during COVID-19. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, S2352464220301097. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30109-7

Lengersdorff, L., Wagner, I., & Lamm, C. (2020, April 20). When implicit prosociality trumps selfishness: the neural valuation system underpins more optimal choices when learning to avoid harm to others than to oneself. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q6psx

Pearson, H., & Balas, B. (2020, May 5). Can naive observers detect suicidality in face images? A replication and extension of Kleiman and Rule (2013). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/prfm3

Uscinski, J. E., Enders, A. M., Klofstad, C., Seelig, M., Funchion, J., Everett, C., Wuchty, S., Premaratne, K., & Murthi, M. (2020). Why do people believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories? Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 1(COVID-19 and Misinformation). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-015

Orben, A. (2020, April 30). The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/dqmju

Johnson, S. G. B., Bilovich, A., & Tuckett, D. (2020, April 30). Conviction Narrative Theory: A Theory of Choice Under Radical Uncertainty. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/urc96

2020-04-08

Shook, N., Sevi, B., Lee, J., Fitzgerald, H. N., & Oosterhoff, B. (2020, April 16). Who’s Listening? Predictors of Concern about COVID-19 and Preventative Health Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c9rfg

Ennis, E. G. (2020, April 16). A Novel Solution to Academic Publishing. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gqxmu

Hallford, D. J., & D'Argembeau, A. (2020, April 15). Why We Imagine Our Future: Introducing the Functions of Future Thinking Scale (FoFTS). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bez4u

Stefani, S., Ricci, E., Prati, G., TZANKOVA, I., Albanesi, C., & Cicognani, E. (2020, April 24). Gender Differences in Political Engagement and Participation among Italian Young People. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ps9ea

Rosen, Z., Weinberger-Litman, S. L., Rosenzweig, C., Rosmarin, D. H., Muennig, P., Carmody, E. R., … Litman, L. (2020, April 14). Anxiety and distress among the first community quarantined in the U.S due to COVID-19: Psychological implications for the unfolding crisis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7eq8c

Rosenfeld, D. L., Rothgerber, H., & Wilson, T. (2020, April 22). Politicizing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ideological Differences in Adherence to Social Distancing. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k23cv

Lades, L., Laffan, K., Daly, M., & Delaney, L. (2020, April 22). Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pg6bw

Wolf, M. G. (2020, April 26). Survey Uses May Influence Survey Responses. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c4hd6

Fried, E. I. (2020, April 24). Mental Health and Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/36xkp https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/36xkp

Okruszek, Ł., Aniszewska-Stańczuk, A., Piejka, A., Wiśniewska, M., & Żurek, K. (2020, April 10). Safe but lonely? Loneliness, mental health symptoms and COVID-19. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9njps

Colombo, R., Wallace, M., & Taylor, R. S. (2020, April 11). An Essential Service Decision Model for Applied Behavior Analytic Providers During Crisis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/te8ha

Abu-Akel, A., Spitz, A., & West, R. (2020, April 9). Who is listening? Spokesperson Effect on Communicating Social and Physical Distancing Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bmzve

Ammerman, B. A., Burke, T. A., Jacobucci, R., & McClure, K. (2020, April 6). Preliminary Investigation of the Association Between COVID-19 and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in the U.S. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/68djp

Kirkegaard, E., Taji, W., & Gerritsen, A. (2020, April 5). Predicting a Pandemic: testing crowd wisdom and expert forecasting amidst the novel COVID-19 outbreak. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2d75g

Resource List for pandemic and COVID-19 related topics.

Spector, N. (2020 March 30). Working from home? Here's how to set boundaries for a better work-life balance. Today. https://www.today.com/health/working-home-amid-coronavirus-here-s-how-set-boundaries-better-t177077#annotations:fi0TFHmaEeqeMb8qy1cFvg

Call for Papers: Commentaries on the Coronavirus Pandemic Deadline: April 30, 2020

Plohl, N., & Musil, B. (2020, April 6). Modeling compliance with COVID-19 prevention guidelines: The critical role of trust in science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6a2cx

British Psychological Society. Responding to Coronavirus: Resources and support. https://www.bps.org.uk/responding-coronavirus

Symonds, J.E. (2020 April 16). Positive pandemic?. The British Psychological Society, the Psychologist. https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/positive-pandemic

Holmes, E. A., O’Connor, R. C., Perry, V. H., Tracey, I., Wessely, S., Arseneault, L., Ballard, C., Christensen, H., Cohen Silver, R., Everall, I., Ford, T., John, A., Kabir, T., King, K., Madan, I., Michie, S., Przybylski, A. K., Shafran, R., Sweeney, A., … Bullmore, E. (2020). Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for action for mental health science. The Lancet Psychiatry, S2215036620301681. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30168-1

Bailey, A., Knobe, J., & Newman, G. (2020). Value-based Essentialism: Essentialist Beliefs About Non-biological Social Groups [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m2eby

Kraft-Todd, G., Kleiman-Weiner, M., & Young, L. (2020, March 25). Differential virtue discounting: Public generosity is seen as more selfish than public impartiality. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zqpv7

The Online Disinhibition Effect (John Suler, 2004) - the lack of restraint shown by some people when communicating online rather than in person. (It can be good as well as bad. How can we reduce the bad behavior?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect http://truecenterpublishing.com/psycyber/disinhibit.html

This idea that fear cannot effectively regulate behavior after a certain time is founded on basic social psychological principles. There is a concept of internal versus external justification. With an external justification, such as fear, one does something only because they know they have to, which leads to only a temporary change. Internal justifications, such as belief in a system of governance or code of ethics, leads to a permanent change because one does it because they believe it is right.

The Bystander Effect - Crowds sometimes fail to help someone in trouble: everyone assumes someone else will do it.

Similarly, people in groups often fail to check facts as carefully as they would if they were alone. They assume someone else has already checked.

Careless people, and bots, tend to share news quickly, without bothering to fact check. Once something has been shared thousands of times, even fairly careful people are likely to assume it must be true.

Again, if social media was to think a bit bigger, there are ways to apply this insight to deprivilege the influence of the quickest, and privilege the influence of those making informed decisions.

The Shouting Class -- people who criticize things as a way of life.

At least, they’ve become unavoidable in class discussions even tangentially related to social psychology. In intro sociology, they lead to some interesting thoughts about lab vs. field experiments.

Alice Maz on communication failures due to different cultures of conversation and values.

Most people value feelings, shared perspectives, and social status. They see correction as an attempt to knock them down a peg. Nerds value facts, logic, and the sharing of information. A genuine nerd shares information with no intention of knocking anyone down, and prefers being corrected to remaining misinformed.