Social Biases During Covid 19 : Managing the Anxiety of Uncertainty.
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer,
2023.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | SpringerBriefs in Psychology Series
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Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Endorsements
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1: The Unbearable Darkness of Being and a Toolkit for How We Forge It: Comparative Biases
- 1.1 Realism, Illusions, or Even Delusions?
- 1.2 Social Comparison and Egotism
- 1.3 Better-than-Average Effect
- 1.4 Unrealistic Optimism
- Chapter 2: How Did We Forge a Bearable Reality in COVID-19? Biases in Social Comparative Judgments in a Time of Pervasive Threat
- 2.1 Dynamics of Unrealistic Optimism in a Time of Pervasive Threat
- 2.2 The Better-than-Average Effect in a Time of Pervasive Threat
- Chapter 3: Time to Worry? Comparative Biases and Health-Related Behaviors in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 3.1 Unrealistic Pessimism
- 3.2 Unrealistic Optimism: Pre-pandemic Research
- 3.3 Unrealistic Optimism in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 3.4 Better than Average
- Chapter 4: Time to Act! Means of Reducing Positive Illusions
- 4.1 You Are Not Exceptional, Not at All!
- 4.2 Don't Look Away: Think About the Danger!
- 4.3 Chameleon? Failed!
- 4.4 Media Intervention Program
- 4.5 Teach and Learn?
- Chapter 5: Time to Bother! Longitudinal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (and Others Too): Why Dismantling Social Cognition Biases Is Absolutely Crucial to Save Not Only Lives
- 5.1 Psychological and Psychiatric Consequences
- 5.2 COVID-19 Pandemic = School Closures = Longitudinal Social Disaster
- 5.3 Neurological Impact = Years of Cognitive Dysfunctions
- Final Remarks: It's Scary, but Manageable
- References
- Index.