Coronavirus and SBS

The Irrationality of Risk Calculations
Public Policy
March 22, 2021

The Irrationality of Risk Calculations

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Social Scientists in the Time of COVID-19: The South African Experience
Public Policy
March 17, 2021

Social Scientists in the Time of COVID-19: The South African Experience

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Video: Social Connectedness during COVID-19
News
March 8, 2021

Video: Social Connectedness during COVID-19

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Watch the Webinar: Connecting Research to Policy at the Nexus of Health and Education
Public Policy
March 4, 2021

Watch the Webinar: Connecting Research to Policy at the Nexus of Health and Education

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World Anthropology Day: What Anthropology Can Teach Us During COVID-19?

World Anthropology Day: What Anthropology Can Teach Us During COVID-19?

With a virus running rampant across the world, the value of a global perspective becomes obvious: We must remember to observe the nuances of cultural and historical contexts […]

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The Comfort of Strangers

The Comfort of Strangers

David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst.

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Video: Inequality During COVID-19

Video: Inequality During COVID-19

“COVID has put a magnifying glass on existing inequalities,” says Jolanda Jetten, a professor of social psychology at the University of Queensland, “and it’s clear that the degree of suffering is unfairly on the shoulders of the poorer groups in societies, and also the poorest countries in this world.”

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Video: Leadership During COVID-19

Video: Leadership During COVID-19

One of the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, argues social psychologist S. Alex Haslam, are many traditional views of leadership. In this […]

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Video: Two Psychologies of COVID-19

Video: Two Psychologies of COVID-19

In this 44-minute video, Stephen Reicher addresses what he sees as the two psychologies of COVID, working through the lens of social identity theory.

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Creating ‘Psychological Vaccine’ to Protect Against Fake COVID News

Creating ‘Psychological Vaccine’ to Protect Against Fake COVID News

Our work in recent years has focused on how to prevent people from falling for misinformation in the first place, building on a framework from social psychology known as inoculation theory.

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Contact Tracing, Privacy, Magical Thinking – and Trust!

Contact Tracing, Privacy, Magical Thinking – and Trust!

The saga of the UK’s contact tracing app(s) should be an object lesson in how not to approach the use of technology in public policy – and why politicians in particular need to step back and rethink their approach to technology, and in particular to privacy.

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Video: Improving the Response to COVID-19

Video: Improving the Response to COVID-19

When it comes to COVID-19, we’re all in it together. That statement, while obvious, is not always how people react. Why is […]

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