A research agenda for the post‐COVID‐19 world: Theory and research in social psychology

Age, frequency of volunteering, and Present-Hedonistic time perspective predict donating items to people in need, but not money to combat COVID-19 during lock-down

“…The pandemic and the requirement to remain socially distanced changed the way how prosociality can express itself (Albarracín & Jung, 2021 ). The readiness to adhere to COVID-19-related preventive measures are linked to prosocial concerns (Pfattheicher et al, 2020 ), similarly – the readiness to vaccinate (Chew et al, 2021 ; Jung & Albarracín, 2021 ).…”

Eradicating ageism through social campaigns: An Israeli case study in the shadows of the COVID‐19 pandemic

“…During the early outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the virus was presented as solely a ‘problem of older people.’ Older people were presented as ‘vulnerable,’ and ‘at risk,’ while younger people were defined as being ‘irresponsible and as people who are threatening the social order.’ Ageism during the pandemic era was evident in a variety of ways including prioritizing the layoff of older people over younger people; economic incentives tied to the age of the workers; the setting of lockdown and exit strategies based on age; as well as arguments about the ethics concerning triage and the delivery of life‐saving treatments (Ayalon et al., 2021 ). In other words, the pandemic has emphasized age‐biased thoughts, feelings and behaviors and intensified tension between the generations (e.g., Albarracin & Jung, 2021 ; Ayalon et al., 2021 ; Ihara et al., 2021 , Meisner, 2021 ).…”

Social cognition theories and behavior change in COVID-19: A conceptual review

“…Given the ongoing pandemic and its future management necessitates continuity of interventions promoting uptake and maintenance of COVID-19 preventive behaviors, the need for effective messaging and health communication has come to the fore. Governmental and public health agencies have turned to behavioral science to identify strategies that will promote attention to, assimilation of, and responsivity to messaging interventions around COVID-preventive behaviors ( Albarracín & Jung, 2021 ; Bonell et al, 2020 ; Michie, Rubin, & Amlôt, 2020 ; Michie et al, 2020 ; West et al, 2020 ). Importantly, drawing from a substantive body of prior research on behavior change, behavioral scientists have highlighted the imperative for messaging interventions to be based on a fundamental understanding of human behavior ( Hagger, Cameron, et al, 2020 ; Michie et al, 2018 ).…”

“…A large corpus of research applying social cognition approaches in health contexts has supported their predictions and demonstrated that their constructs account for non-trivial variance in behavior (e.g., Carpenter, 2010 ; McEachan, Conner, Taylor, & Lawton, 2011 ; Milne, Sheeran, & Orbell, 2000 ). In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, social cognition theories have featured prominently in studies predicting COVID-19 preventive behaviors (for a review see Albarracín & Jung, 2021 ). These studies have been successful in accounting for unique variance in behavior, and have assisted in identifying relevant processes (e.g., Bogg & Milad, 2020 ; Chu & Liu, 2021 ; Hagger, Smith, Keech, Moyers, & Hamilton, 2020 ; Hamilton, Smith, Keech, Moyers, & Hagger, 2020 ; Jang, Kim, & Kwon, 2021 ; Norman, Wilding, & Conner, 2020 ; Tong, He, Wu, Dang, & Chen, 2021 ).…”