Several months before the roll-out of COVID vaccines, we published a study looking at incentives for getting vaccinated. Our research, as...

There have been many episodes of panic buying during COVID-19. There will be more to come, involving a combination of in-store and online...

The following is a UBC news release concerning our recently published research on the fear and avoidance of healthcare workers. Many...

We have a new scientific article on the COVID Stress Syndrome, available via open access.

A shortened version of yesterday's blog was published today in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/07/life-n...

What are the characteristics of people who cope well under self-isolation? In the past few years this issue has been of great interest in...

A Kindle version of the pandemic book is finally available on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Pandemics-Preparing-Outbreak-Infe...

Good advice today from the Prime Minster of Canada: “go home and stay home”. Most people are doing just that, but the problem is that a...

Opinion polls provide a snapshot of how people are reacting to the current pandemic. The most comprehensive was a recent Ipsos poll of...

Research shows that most people cope well during natural disasters such as pandemics. People may feel stressed or anxious but most will...

Quack cures and folk remedies have always been around. Some highly anxious people, desperate to find some way of protecting themselves,...

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The backstory on the Psychology of Pandemics

The Psychology of Pandemics is finally available for digital download.

Troll (noun): “a person who intentionally antagonizes others online by posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other...

With the high demand for protective masks, and the recent panic buying of supplies from supermarkets, it was inevitable that hustlers...

At the time of writing (March 2, 2020), protective face masks are not recommended in Canada or the U.S. for protecting healthy people in...

Is panic-buying in a pandemic rational or irrational, psychologically speaking? Anything that creates a sense of urgency or scarcity can...

To declare that an outbreak is a pandemic is like setting off a fire alarm. It alerts people that something serious is about to happen....

The psychological fallout of COVID-19