Please see below for media coverage of the PsyCorona initiative, and some relevant articles written by different PsyCorona collaborators. Journalists with press requests can contact psycorona@rug.nl to make their inquiries.
Work came home, quite literally, for thousands of psychological scientists at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. For Lindsay T. Graham, a psychometrician and personality and social psychologist who studies the fit between humans and their daily environments, the lens through which she conducts her research...
As the COVID-19 pandemic lashes countries in a second wave of infections, patience and solidarity are giving way to frustration and blame. Officials in the United States and Germany say the latest upsurge in infections in their countries is a consequence of a selfish minority that is ignoring basic social distancing rules...
Normally I’d be spending every April weekend I could hiking with my husband in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. After several weekends in a row of the 2-3-hour drive (each way), my husband and I would eventually bargain with each other to spend a lazy weekend at home. On this lazy weekend, I might catch up on a little work...
Following their research linking individuals' political beliefs to their COVID-19 health behaviors, Department of Psychology Professor Ed Lemay and Distinguished University Professor Arie Kruglanski recently published a study in The Journal of Social Psychology that takes an even closer look at what contributes to people’s pandemic response.