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What Can the Pandemic Teach Us About Human Nature?
It all happened so quickly. In a matter of weeks, our world was upended when a far-flung outbreak spiraled into a genuine pandemic. With vaccines and pharmaceutical interventions still a speck on the horizon, human
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Understanding the Outrage Over Altering Holiday Celebrations Despite COVID-19 Risks
APS Member/Author: Juliana Schroeder With the holidays fast approaching and COVID-19 cases and deaths reaching new highs, some U.S. officials are, to limit the spread of COVID-19, urging—or even requiring—that residents alter their typical celebrations.
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Katy Milkman on How to Nudge People to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine
THE END OF covid-19 is in sight, as effective vaccines move closer to approval. However, society faces a new crisis: uptake. If too few people agree to get immunised, the value of a vaccine will
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Losses. Loom. Large. And That, in Short, Explains Your Loss Aversion.
Kai Ruggeri is an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and he has a proposition for you. Would you like a guaranteed $90? Or a 90% chance of $100? I personally
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PsyCorona: A World of Reactions to COVID-19
This online data visualization tool provides a historical record of psychological and behavioral reactions to the pandemic, based on responses from more than 60,000 participants globally.
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Back Page: Playing PAC-Man and Helping to Shape the Field
Michael Hout shapes the field of perception, action, and cognition at the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.
