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Grant Policy Changes for Psychological Science Funders Resulting From COVID-19
With COVID-19 disrupting life around the world, funding agencies are issuing policy updates and other guidance related to grants and contracts.
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Psychological Science and Epidemics: Voices of Experts
The science of psychology can help inform public debate and understand public behavior related to COVID-19.
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A Cough, and Our Hearts Stop: Coping With Coronavirus Anxiety and Fear
We are you. We are mothers, daughters, students and teachers. Yet we are also clinical psychologists who spend our days researching and treating pathological anxiety and fear. With the near constant news of the spreading coronavirus and fatalities, our personal and professional identities have dramatically collided, forcing us to consciously live consistent with the scientific principles we know well. ... In Seattle’s elevated threat environment, anxiety processes are playing out in our daily lives.
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Upcoming Deadline: National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Fellowship supports basic and applied research that advances the Institute’s mission
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New Special Collections: New Perspectives on Psychological Science
Four independently submitted journal articles (preface by an outstanding early-career scholar) explore the importance of contextualizing morality in order to better understand moral behaviors and change.
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To Survive the Coronavirus, the United States Must Tighten Up
US officials have been implementing a wide range of public health measures to mitigate the damage being wrought by the deadly new coronavirus. While social distancing, better hygiene, and flat-out travel bans may help, we have yet to address one of our biggest vulnerabilities: America’s traditionally loose culture. The decentralized, defiant, do-it-your-own-way norms that make our country so entrepreneurial and creative also deepen our danger during the coronavirus crisis. To fight this pandemic, we can’t just shift our resources; we have to shift our cultural patterns as well. Already we can see signs of panic and egocentric behavior.