1st Edition

Coping with Covid Insights from Cognition and Emotion Research

Edited By Sander L. Koole, Klaus Rothermund Copyright 2025
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

This book addresses how coping with the pandemic has been shaped by the interplay between cognition and emotion. The various contributions to this book explore the impacts of the pandemic on the following: a) How people were confronted with new risks and realities; b) Active processes of emotional resilience and ruminative coping; and c) Moral decision-making. Taken together, the chapters in... Read more

Introduction - Coping with COVID-19: insights from cognition and emotion research

Sander L. Koole and Klaus Rothermund

 

Part I: Risks and realities

 

1. Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: the case of COVID-19

David M. Markowitz

 

2. Pandemic reminders as psychological threat: thinking about COVID-19 lowers coping self-Efficacy among trauma-exposed adults

McKenzie Lockett, Tom Pyszczynski and Sander L. Koole

 

3. Emotion networks across self-reported depression levels during the COVID-19 pandemic

Aoife Whiston, Eric R. Igou and Dónal G. Fortune

 

4. The impact of COVID-19 social isolation on aspects of emotional and social cognition

Amy Rachel Bland, Jonathan Paul Roiser, Mitul Ashok Mehta, Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Trevor William Robbins and Rebecca Elliott

 

5. (Un)mask yourself! Effects of face masks on facial mimicry and emotion perception during the COVID-19 pandemic

Till Kastendieck, Stephan Zillmer and Ursula Hess

 

Part II: Resilience and rumination

 

6. Narrative coherence predicts emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a two-year longitudinal study

Lauranne Vanaken, Patricia Bijttebier, Robyn Fivush and Dirk Hermans

 

7. The effect of induced COVID-19-related fear on psychological distance and time perception

Iris Schelhorn, Emily Buchner, Ferdinand Kosak, Fabian Hutmacher, Max Kinateder and Youssef Shiban

 

8. The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report

Hannah R. Duttweiler, Michelle K. Sheena, Katie L. Burkhouse and Cope Feurer

 

9. Emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: risk and resilience factors for parental burnout (IIPB)

Dana Vertsberger, Isabelle Roskam, Anat Talmon, Hedwig van Bakel, Ruby Hall, Moïra Mikolajczak and James J. Gross

 

Part III: Righteous reasoning

 

10. Coronashaming: interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations

Belén López-Pérez, Yaniv Hanoch and Michaela Gummerum

 

11. Reactance, morality, and disgust: the relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodrigo Díaz and Florian Cova

 

12. Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas

Markus Kneer and Ivar R. Hannikainen

 

Biography

Sander L. Koole is Full Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Editor-in-Chief at Cognition & Emotion. His research examines how people manage their emotions. His latest work focuses on the use of AI to help people to manage their emotions more effectively.

Klaus Rothermund is Full Professor and Chair of General Psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany. His main areas of interest are basic cognitive and affective processes and their relation to superordinate processes of emotion regulation, action control, and coping.