1st Edition
Coping with Covid Insights from Cognition and Emotion Research
This book addresses how coping with the pandemic has been shaped by the interplay between cognition and emotion. The various contributions to this book explore the impacts of the pandemic on: a) How people were confronted with new risks and realities; b) Active processes of emotional resilience and ruminative coping; and c) Moral decision-making.
Taken together, the chapters in this volume show how research on cognition and emotion can illuminate the social and emotional strains of the pandemic, while helping to identify risk factors that exacerbate these problems and pointing to ways to successfully address and mitigate these problems, such as emotion regulation, social support, and perspective taking.
This book is a valuable source for students and researchers in the fields of cognitive and affective sciences including social and clinical psychology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Cognition and Emotion.
Introduction - Coping with COVID-19: Insights from cognition and emotion research
Sander L. Koole and Klaus Rothermund
Part I: Risks and Realities
1. Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: The case of COVID-19
David M. Markowitz
2. Pandemic reminders as psychological threat: Thinking about COVID-19 lowers coping self-Efficacy among trauma-exposed adults
McKenzie Lockett, Tom Pyszczynski and Sander L. Koole
3. Emotion networks across self-reported depression levels during the COVID-19 pandemic
Aoife Whiston, Eric R. Igou and Dónal G. Fortune
4. The impact of COVID-19 social isolation on aspects of emotional and social cognition
Amy Rachel Bland, Jonathan Paul Roiser, Mitul Ashok Mehta, Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Trevor William Robbins and Rebecca Elliott
5. (Un)mask yourself! Effects of face masks on facial mimicry and emotion perception during the COVID-19 pandemic
Till Kastendieck, Stephan Zillmer and Ursula Hess
Part II: Resilience and Rumination
6. Narrative coherence predicts emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A two-year longitudinal study
Lauranne Vanaken, Patricia Bijttebier, Robyn Fivush and Dirk Hermans
7. The effect of induced COVID-19-related fear on psychological distance and time perception
Iris Schelhorn, Emily Buchner, Ferdinand Kosak, Fabian Hutmacher, Max Kinateder and Youssef Shiban
8. The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: A brief report
Hannah R. Duttweiler, Michelle K. Sheena, Katie L. Burkhouse and Cope Feurer
9. Emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Risk and resilience factors for parental burnout (IIPB)
Dana Vertsberger, Isabelle Roskam, Anat Talmon, Hedwig van Bakel, Ruby Hall, Moïra Mikolajczak and James J. Gross
Part III: Righteous Reasoning
10. Coronashaming: Interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations
Belén López-Pérez, Yaniv Hanoch and Michaela Gummerum
11. Reactance, morality, and disgust: The relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rodrigo Díaz and Florian Cova
12. Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: The role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas
Markus Kneer and Ivar R. Hannikainen
Biography
Sander L. Koole is Full Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Editor-in-Chief at Cognition & Emotion. His research examines how people manage their emotions. His latest work focuses on the use of AI to help people to manage their emotions more effectively.
Klaus Rothermund is Full Professor and Chair of General Psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany. His main areas of interest are basic cognitive and affective processes and their relation to superordinate processes of emotion regulation, action control, and coping.
