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COVID-19 After One Year: What Will the Future Bring?
Think back over the Year of COVID: what images strike in your mind? Correspondent Martha Teichner asked six prominent public figures to remember and reflect. “Just empty cities across the world,” said urban studies theorist
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Despite Good News, You’re Not Feeling Better. There’s A Reason Why.
For those on the left and right who welcomed Biden’s election, the inaugural transition seemed like the moment to finally leave behind the psychological toll of the deception, bullying, and deadly incompetence that characterized the
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Strengthening Contact Tracing Using Witness Interviewing Techniques
Treating infected people like witnesses to the spread of a virus could improve contact tracing.
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Student Notebook: Taking Time to Connect Amid a Pandemic
Leah Choe suggests putting socially distanced time with your loved ones on your calendar as if they were as important as a job interview—because they are.
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Why 500,000 COVID-19 Deaths May Not Feel Any Different
Why is it so hard to feel the difference between 400,000 and 500,000 COVID-19 deaths—and how might that impact our decision making during the pandemic? Psychologist Paul Slovic explains the concept of psychic numbing and how humans
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Why Your Brain Feels Broken
… It turns out that many aspects of our pandemic lives could lead to impaired executive functioning, which is a fancy way of describing the mental processes that allow us to plan, organize and remember instructions.
