... during times of crisis, this study investigated the trajectory of all preprints posted to the repository PsyArXiv up to 19 May 2020 that were related to COVID-19 ( n = 211). Specifically, we examined the trajectory, transparency, and diversity of these preprints as compared to PsyArXiv preprints...

... ranging from a lack of mutual pro-sociality to an endorsement of violence against an out-group. Our study tested whether mutual dehumanization and meta-dehumanization (the belief that we are being dehumanized by an out-group) occur between supporters and opponents of a COVID-19 vaccine. Using a diverse...

...Cristina Rodríguez-Prada; Miguel Burgaleta; Luis Morís Fernández; Miguel A. Vadillo; Salvador Soto-Faraco; Stefany Coxe The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychological well-being led to a proliferation of online psychological interventions, along with the publications of studies assessing...

...Claudia Gianelli; Katharina Kühne; Alex Miklashevsky; Melinda Jeglinski-Mende; Nicola Canessa; Anna M. Borghi The outbreak of COVID-19 and efforts to contain it have likely impacted our daily lives, including how we interact with objects. This online study aimed to develop and test a task...

...Cailin O’Connor; Daniel Relihan; Ashley Thomas; Peter H. Ditto; P. Kyle Stanford; James O. Weatherall; Yoel Inbar The COVID-19 pandemic created enormously difficult decisions for individuals trying to navigate both the risks of the pandemic and the demands of everyday life. Good decision making...

... pandemic. Preprints posted on PsyArXiv between two time periods in 2020 (March-April and May-December) with keywords related to “COVID-19” were sourced and their participant and author composition were assessed. Western and rich democracies were overrepresented in terms of authors and participants...

... and sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals on stress-related experiences may be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined the daily stressors experienced by undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic (stressor exposure), the association between the experience of daily stress and same...

...Rui Sun; Carlotta Rieble; Yang Liu; Disa Sauter; Matthias Mehl Humans are social beings, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, people around the world were periodically in lockdown and were required to try to physically distance themselves from others. The resultant limitation of face-to-face...

... to the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., online teaching to prevent the spread of the virus). Furthermore, we provide initial behavioral evidence for this effect by showing that transfers in a trust game increase with a target’s caring about a social issue. All results are robust for age, gender, and social issue...

...Mathias Twardawski; Lena Steindorf; Isabel Thielmann; Beth Visser The outbreak of a global pandemic such as COVID-19 poses a challenge for societies across the world. Lacking both vaccination and medical treatment, the only way to combat the spread of a virus in its early stages are behavioral...

...Caroline E. Balling; Skye C. Napolitano; Sean P. Lane; Douglas B. Samuel; Brent Donnellan The COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity for quantifying the impact of Five Factor Model personality domains (i.e. neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness...

... dilemmas abound in daily life. Emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic pose salient conflicts of interests between individual and societal welfare. One example is the run on many basic goods in anticipation of lockdowns. Such social dilemmas afford the expression of personality traits associated...

... the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. coronavirus covid-19 perceived risk behavioural intentions optimism compliance...

...Dunigan Folk; Karynna Okabe-Miyamoto; Elizabeth Dunn; Sonja Lyubomirsky; Brent Donnellan; Brent Donnellan In two pre-registered studies, we tracked changes in individuals’ feelings of social connection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both studies capitalized on measures of social connection and well...

...Yuki Yamada; Simine Vazire; Laura Scherer In the COVID-19 situation, social and behavioral science evidence is accumulating rapidly through online data collection, but the options to share and publish this information are scarce. As a remedy, I recommend the adoption of micropublishing...