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APS Reissues Call for Inclusion of Psychological Science Expertise on COVID Advisory Board
Psychological science expertise is critical to the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response, argues APS in a new letter to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board. As this important board grows, APS repeats a call that a research psychologist be considered for membership.
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New Guidance on Encouraging Protective COVID-19 Behaviors Among Students
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, through its Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), released a new rapid consultation report titled Encouraging Protective COVID-19 Behaviors Among College Students to provide guidance for the 2021 spring semester.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on how people think that others are more likely to be “bad” than themselves, intuitive physical reasoning, effects of COVID-19 on relationship satisfaction, recreational fear, alcohol experiences, visuospatial attention, and age advantages in emotional experience during COVID-19.
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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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The Denialist Playbook
Once upon a time, in a land not far away, there was a horrible virus that instilled terror in every town and home. Although most people who became infected showed no symptoms or recovered within
