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Psychological Response to COVID-19 & Loneliness in the UK

Akshay SharanEmployee Health, General Psychology

Tweet Researchers at UCL have stepped forward in this time of global crisis to ascertain the impact of a pandemic such as COVID-19 on individuals living in the UK. Currently, adult participants living in the UK are being recruited to study the impact of the pandemic. Researchers hope that the data collected could help inform policy and practice with regards ...
Psychological Types and Isolation

Psychological Types and Isolation

Vijai PandeyGeneral Psychology 1 Comment

Tweet How different people are likely to deal with the social and physical isolation? While coronavirus doesn’t care about our psychological types and it affects all types in equal/secular ways, different people are going to have different impact of isolation on their thinking, feeling and action. There are some, who can withstand isolation for longer than the rest. There are ...

Social Distance, Physical Distance and Imposed Quarantine

Mariya JilinskayaEmotional Intelligence, General Psychology 3 Comments

Tweet We are facing unprecedented times. By saying so, we already are saying two things of today’s situation: one, that it is scary (lets accept this fact that the situation is scary) and two, that we do not have a pre-existing template or process to rely on as the existing templates are not very helpful. Although there has been some ...
political correctness

The cost of political correctness

Akshay SharanGeneral Psychology

Political correctness refers to the notion of saying the 'right' things owing to the growing intolerance towards political diversity and debate. We live in an era of partisan, polarized debates across university campuses, both in India and abroad. These debates are usually now met with protests and demands for speakers to leave various campuses. This is a sign of dwindling ...
bystander effect

Understanding motives for intervening in emergency situations

Akshay SharanGeneral Psychology Leave a Comment

The bystander effect refers to the inaction by those witnessing an emergency situation. This concept gained significance due to the Kitty Genovese murder case in New York City in 1964, where reports suggest multiple individuals were witness to the event from the comfort of their own homes, yet did nothing to assist or seek help. Today, it appears that there ...