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Psychology of pandemics: Lessons learned for future pandemics
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Pandemics are not simply events in which some harmful microbe “goes viral”, rapidly spreading across the globe. Psychology plays a central role in pandemics, influencing the spreading and containment of diseases, and shaping pandemic-related distress and socially disruptive, divisive, and potentially harmful phenomena such as panic buying, racism, and protests against pandemic mitigation restrictions.
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Insights from contemporary research, combined with analyses of historical records, reveals 14 lessons for planning and managing future pandemics. The present article describes and expands on these lessons for managing future pandemics.
Steven Taylor
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: The psychology of pandemics: Lessons learned for the future., Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, May 2022, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/cap0000303.
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