COVID-19: rethinking the lockdown groupthink

AR Joffe - Frontiers in public health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic in 2020. In response, most …

Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

SK Gadarian, SW Goodman, TB Pepinsky - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Objective To study the US public's health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about
COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20–23, 2020). Method …

When the rally-around-the-flag effect disappears, or: when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes “normalized”

B Johansson, DN Hopmann… - Journal of Elections …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The rally-around-the-flag effect describes the tendency of public opinion to become more
favourable toward political leaders in times of crises. Political leaders rarely can exchange …

Impact of COVID-19 on project performance in the UAE construction industry

M Sami Ur Rehman, MT Shafiq, M Afzal - Journal of Engineering …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the global
economy and, thus, the global construction industry. This paper aims to study the impact of …

When in danger, turn right: Does COVID-19 threat promote social conservatism and right-wing presidential candidates?

Abstract Drawing upon the Parasite Model of Democratization across two preregistered
experiments conducted in the USA and Poland (total N= 1,237), we examined the …

Leader–follower behavioural coordination and neural synchronization during intergroup conflict

H Zhang, J Yang, J Ni, CKW De Dreu, Y Ma - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Leaders can launch hostile attacks on out-groups and organize in-group defence. Whether
groups settle the conflict in their favour depends, however, on whether followers align with …

[PDF][PDF] Alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 period: May 2020

N Biddle, B Edwards, M Gray, K Sollis - 2020 - drugsandalcohol.ie
The aim of this paper is to analyse changes in alcohol consumption since the spread of the
COVID-19 pandemic. We show that the frequency of alcohol consumption during COVID-19 …

When do disasters spark transformative policy change and why?

D Nohrstedt - Policy & Politics, 2022 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Floods, earthquakes, droughts, and other recurrent disasters around the globe have sparked
renewed interest in whether and how disasters can be leveraged as turning points for …

Talking about COVID-19 is positively associated with team cultural tightness: Implications for team deviance and creativity.

X Qin, KC Yam, C Chen, W Li… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected everyone's work and daily life, and many
employees are talking with their coworkers about this widespread pandemic on a regular …

[PDF][PDF] Ostracizing group members who can (or cannot) control being burdensome

ED Wesselmann, KD Williams, JH Wirth - Human Ethology, 2014 - human-ethology.org
Previous research has postulated effects of environmental stress on ingroup/outgroup
thinking: The higher the pathogenic risk and the perceived vulnerability to it, the higher the …