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Social Isolation May Increase Susceptibility to Covid-19, Scientist Claims
The psychological stress of social isolation may make people more susceptible to severe Covid-19 infection, a US scientist has claimed. Dr Sheldon Cohen, who is a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, said
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Research Shows How To Spot Fake News About Coronavirus
Misinformation on social media is not a new problem, but we may never have felt its impact so strongly as in 2020. That’s because this year misinformation has contributed to the death of thousands from
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Surviving the Trauma of COVID-19
APS Member/Author: Roxane Cohen Silver As a psychological scientist who investigates how individuals and communities respond to collective traumas, I study human resilience in a range of situations—from earthquakes and hurricanes to mass violence and
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U.S. Teens Advise Schools on Fall Reopening During COVID-19 Pandemic
When U.S. schools begin the next academic year with the country still fighting the coronavirus pandemic, students should spend half their time in classrooms and half doing online activities that pinpoint their individual learning style
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Despite Warnings, Social Distancing Does Not Make Us Lonely
For months we’ve been reading warnings that the coronavirus pandemic could make us lonely. But now researchers have good news: people are more resilient than we thought. A new study published in American Psychologist has found that social distancing
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Adam Grant on How Jobs, Bosses and firms may improve after the crisis
APS Member/Author: Adam Grant IN 1993 THE management guru Peter Drucker argued that “commuting to office work is obsolete.” As of last year, his vision hadn’t quite come true: nearly half of global companies in one survey still prohibited