Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

The COVID-19 pandemic took most communities off guard and has highlighted gaps in
community preparedness and resilience in spite of the numerous technological …

Background Since late 2019, the lives of people across the globe have been disrupted by
COVID-19. Millions of people have become infected with the disease, while billions of …

Rationale The coronavirus pandemic has forced governments to implement a variety of
different dynamic lockdown-stringency strategies in the last two years. Extensive lockdown …

Older adults increasingly use digital technologies to communicate with others. The goal of
the present study is to understand the role of interaction modality for the perceived quality of …

Social and behavioral science research proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic,
reflecting the substantial increase in influence of behavioral science in public health and …

Using a cross-sectional survey study with undergraduate students (N= 1257; M age= 20;
908 women) in the United States, this paper examined college students' use of social media …

Humans possess a need for social contact. Satisfaction of this need benefits well-being,
whereas deprivation is detrimental. However, how much contact people desire is not …

The social distancing measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed
people from social to isolated individuals. During that time, social media became a useful …

It is well-established that more frequent social interaction is associated with higher well-
being across the lifespan. The present study examines the role of frequency of interactions …