Publication Type

Editorial

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

3-2021

Abstract

Revisiting the history of social psychology, one noticeable trend is that the agenda of social psychologists is interwoven with events that happen in society and the world (Ross et al., 2010). For example, the Holocaust during World War II stimulated social psychologists’ interest in ethnocentrism, aggression, and obedience, just as increasing globalization became one of the impetuses for investigations into the role of culture in human behaviour, and hence the emergence of cultural and cross‐cultural psychology. Considering its immensity, we believe that the COVID‐19 pandemic will likely be a trigger for profound and consequential changes in social psychology (Khazaie & Khan, 2020). We thus organized this special forum in order to initiate a discussion regarding the potential impacts of the pandemic on our field. In this forum, six leading social psychologists (Dolores Albarracin, Michael Bond, Jolanda Jetten, Yoshihisa Kashima, James Liu, and Sander van der Linden) guide us in taking a step back and reflecting on how social psychology scholarship is being and will be influenced by the pandemic, and what social psychologists can and should do to serve humanity during this crisis.

Keywords

Covid-19, pandemics, social psychology, research, human systems, social impact

Discipline

Public Health | Social Psychology | Social Psychology and Interaction

Research Areas

Psychology

Publication

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volume

24

Issue

1

First Page

8

Last Page

9

ISSN

1367-2223

Identifier

10.1111/ajsp.12468

Publisher

Wiley

Embargo Period

4-18-2021

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12468

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