Gettysburg College.
Pacific Lutheran University.
J Soc Psychol. 2021 Jul 4;161(4):403-407. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2021.1935830. Epub 2021 Jul 26.
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in the lives of people around the world. Pandemics are powerful situations that can be examined from a social psychological lens. In this special section, four articles present data collected before and during the pandemic, providing a type of quasi-experimental design that helped examine the impact of the pandemic on social behavior. A number of findings emerged: the pandemic potentially increased instances of cyberbullying; the pandemic may have increased reports that Black-White intergroup interactions are more competitive and discriminatory; the pandemic may have reduced negative attitudes and bias in domestic versus international students in the U.S; and the pandemic may have allowed feelings of helplessness to provide a fear-reducing mechanism. We expand upon these findings by discussing how social psychology can help us understand and modify behaviors related to health and social relations during major threats like a pandemic.
新冠疫情给全世界人民的生活带来了巨大的冲击。从社会心理学的角度来看，大流行病是一种强大的情况。在这个特别版块中，有四篇文章展示了在疫情爆发前后收集的数据，提供了一种准实验设计，有助于研究疫情对社会行为的影响。有一些发现：疫情可能增加了网络欺凌的发生；疫情可能增加了关于黑人和白人之间的群体互动更具竞争性和歧视性的报告；疫情可能减少了美国国内和国际学生之间的负面态度和偏见；疫情可能使无助感成为一种减轻恐惧的机制。我们通过讨论社会心理学如何帮助我们理解和改变在重大威胁（如大流行）期间与健康和社会关系相关的行为，进一步扩展了这些发现。
