Social Biases During Covid 19 : : Managing the Anxiety of Uncertainty.

• Superior document: SpringerBriefs in Psychology Series
• Author: Kulesza, Wojciech.
• TeilnehmendeR: Doliński, Dariusz.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (102 pages)

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.