Spotlight: Covid-Related Projects by Department of Psychology Faculty

Several Department of Psychology faculty and graduate students were involved in COVID-related research projects throughout the pandemic. See the links below for some highlights.
 

Josh Ackerman and Ashley Gearhardt

• COVID-19 stress and eating and drinking behaviors in the United States during the early stages of the pandemic

Pamela Davis-Kean

• Beyond the Pandemic: Challenges & Opportunities for Changes in Education

• Educational Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19

• Few US students ever repeat a grade but that could change due to COVID-19

• Groundhog Day: Homeschooling in the Time of COVID-19

Patricia Deldin

• Mood Lifters, the Pandemic and Beyond

Ashley Gearhardt

• Health-promoting behaviors in the United States during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

Susan Gelman

• Targeting Children's Beliefs and Misconceptions Concerning COVID-19

• RAPID: Children's Biological Beliefs Concerning COVID-19 Disease Transmission

Amie Gordon

• COVID-19 Couple Study Results

Luke Hyde

• Mechanisms underlying resilience to neighborhood disadvantage

Luke Hyde and Chris Monk

• COVID-19 supplement to a computational examination of threat and reward constructs in a predominantly low-income, longitudinal sample at increased risk for internalizing disorders (with Chris Monk)

Shinobu Kitayama

• Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

• Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition

• Links and information about the papers below can be found at the Culture & Cognition Lab Website

  • How will collective-level dynamics influence the spread of COVID-19?
  • The lethal spiral: Racial segregation and economic disparity jointly exacerbate the COVID-19 fatality in large American cities
  • Interdependent self-construal predicts complacency under pathogen threat: An electrocortical investigation
  • Relational mobility predicts a faster spread of COVID-19: A 39 country study
  • Mandated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination predicts flattened curves for the spread of COVID-19
  • Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition
  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

John Schulenberg

• Daily marijuana use among US college students reaches new 40-year high

Abby Stewart

• COVID-19’s Attack on Women and Feminists’ Response: The Pandemic, Inequality, and Activism

Abby Stewart and Jessica Kiebler

• Student Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from First-Generation/Low- Income Students and Others (with Jessica Kiebler)

Natalie Tronson

• Memory deficits in males and females long after subchronic immune challenge

• Enduring and Sex-specific Changes in Hippocampal Gene Expression after a Subchronic Immune Challenge

• Neuroimmune Activation Drives Multiple Brain States

• How COVID-19 might increase risk of memory loss and cognitive decline

• How COVID-19 might increase risk of memory loss