A large scale international collaborative project on the social psychology of COVID 19: Implications for leadership research

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. Without a vaccine, the best hope for reducing the spread of the virus is through large-scale behavior change. The International Collaboration on the Social & Moral Psychology of COVID-19 (ICSMP) project was initiated by a group of researchers who were interested in examining the psychological factors underlying the attitudes and behavioral intentions related to COVID-19. Across 46,000 citizens in 67 countries, this project examined why people adopted public health behaviors and supported protective policies during the early stages of the pandemic. The results provide important implications for leaders in managing the current and future pandemics. Operating under a model of open science, all measures and data will be shared, and available for secondary papers upon publication.

Lewend Mayiwar

Post-Doctoral Fellow/Incoming Associate Professor

Emotions, judgment and decision making, reproducibility, replications.