A shortened version of yesterday's blog was published today in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/07/life-never-return-normal-c...

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 selecting astronaut...

A Kindle version of the pandemic book is finally available on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Pandemics-Preparing-Outbreak-Infectious-ebook/dp/B086...

Opinion polls provide a snapshot of how people are reacting to the current pandemic. The most comprehensive was a recent Ipsos poll of 10,000 adults in 12 co...

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

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

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The backstory on the Psychology of Pandemics

The Psychology of Pandemics is finally available for digital download.

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

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 the community from C...

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

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. It alerts community h...

The psychological fallout of COVID-19