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Why 500,000 COVID-19 Deaths May Not Feel Any Different
Why is it so hard to feel the difference between 400,000 and 500,000 COVID-19 deaths—and how might that impact our decision making during the pandemic? Psychologist Paul Slovic explains the concept of psychic numbing and how humans
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Why Your Brain Feels Broken
… It turns out that many aspects of our pandemic lives could lead to impaired executive functioning, which is a fancy way of describing the mental processes that allow us to plan, organize and remember instructions.
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The Collective Grief We Must Face
APS Member/Author: Dorothy P. Holinger I have known grief all my life. My baby sister died when I was a toddler, and I know what it did to my family. We couldn’t grieve her death
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How the Pandemic is Changing Children’s Friendships
Just one year ago, kids could hold their friends’ hands. They shared blankets at sleepovers. They clustered around birthday cakes to help blow out the candles. And now they don’t. Many things in our pandemic-stricken
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, theory building in psychological science, motivation and endocrine responses, and the influence of how children explain differences in their classroom on performance.
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Caught in a COVID Romance: How the Pandemic has Rewritten Relationships
… Psychologists and relationship experts say the pandemic has no doubt made people reconsider their relationships, especially as quarantine began to highlight longstanding issues. Kerry Lusignan, a licensed mental health counselor and founder of Northampton Couples