Emergency situations require individuals to make important changes in their behaviour. In
the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, official recommendations to avoid the spread of the …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have advocated numerous social distancing
measures, and compliance with these has likely saved millions of lives globally. In an online …

Sharing in the experiences of others often feels like a natural inclination, yet several groups
have converged on the idea that empathy reflects motivated choices. Although sometimes …

Philosophy is a reflective activity. So perhaps it is unsurprising that many philosophers have
claimed that reflection plays an important role in sha** and even improving our …

Purpose Beliefs that the risks from a COVID-19 vaccine outweigh the risks from getting
COVID-19 and concerns that the vaccine development process was rushed and lacking …

In this study, we examine how perceived vulnerability to disease, psychological resilience,
and disgust sensitivity are affected by changing social conditions during the pandemic. We …

While previous research has revealed an ideological divide in Americans' perceptions of
COVID‐19, specific ideological components can additionally explain public reactions to the …

Several mechanisms of processing (un) familiar messages—processing fluency, message
fatigue, interest, and counterarguing—are documented but studied independently …

While there is substantial research on COVID-19's general framing in the news, little is
known about the antecedents and moderators of using moral language in communicating …

Background While the COVID‐19 pandemic has resulted in millions of deaths worldwide,
the rapid development and distribution of novel vaccines reduced the scale of severe illness …