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• Study authors used GPS to track participants for up to 4 months, regularly texting them to ask about their positive and negative emotional states.
• People who were the most active explorers also reported the most positive emotional states.
• Later, some participants underwent MRI scans, and the results showed that the brain actively rewards us for experiencing new things and switching locations.
• People feel happier when they experience different things and visit new places often, but it’s unclear whether people with less interesting experiences actually feel sadder.
• What’s important, even small changes - exercising at home, walking around your neighborhood, choosing a different route to go shopping - can have a positive impact.

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RAJAONAH, B., & Zio, E. (2020, May 20). Contributing to Disaster Management as an Individual Member of a Collectivity: Resilient Ethics and Ethics of Resilience. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/g4hst

Jones, A. L., Schild, C., Satchell, L., & Jaeger, B. (2020, May 21). Misunderstanding COVID-19 and digit ratio: Methodological and statistical issues in Manning and Fink (2020). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ht74e

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Kennedy, B., Atari, M., Davani, A. M., Hoover, J., Omrani, A., Graham, J., & Dehghani, M. (2020, May 7). Moral Concerns are Differentially Observable in Language. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uqmty

Yao, H., Chen, J., Zhao, M., Qiu, J., Koenen, K. C., Stewart, R., Mellor, D., & Xu, Y. (2020). Mitigating mental health consequences during the COVID ‐19 outbreak: Lessons from China. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, pcn.13018. https://doi.org/10.1111/pcn.13018

Trueblood, J., Sussman, A., O'Leary, D., & Holmes, W. (2020, April 21). A Tale of Two Crises: Financial Fragility and Beliefs about the Spread of COVID-19. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xfrz3

Gollwitzer, M., Platzer, C., Zwarg, C., & Göritz, A. S. (2020, April 14). Public Acceptance of Potential Covid-19 Lockdown Scenarios. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3a85z

Pisano, L., Galimi, D., & Cerniglia, L. (2020, April 13). A qualitative report on exploratory data on the possible emotional/behavioral correlates of Covid-19 lockdown in 4-10 years children in Italy. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/stwbn

Rodham, K., Bains, K., Westbrook, J., Stanulewicz, N., Byrne-Davis, L., Hart, J., & Chater, A. (2020, May 6). Rapid review: Reflective Practice in crisis situations. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e8tqn

Brown, M., & Sacco, D. F. (2020, May 6). Testing the Motivational Tradeoffs in Pathogen Avoidance and Status Acquisition. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y8ct6

Branley-Bell, D., & Talbot, C. V. (2020, May 5). Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and UK lockdown on individuals with experience of eating disorders. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bdcwe

Alvis, L., Shook, N., & Oosterhoff, B. (2020, May 7). Adolescents’ Prosocial Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associations with Mental Health and Community Attachments. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2s73n

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Watzek, J., & Brosnan, S. (2020, April 30). Capuchin and rhesus monkeys show sunk cost effects in a psychomotor task. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qtgru

Banks, G.G. & Butcher, C. (2020 April 17). Telehealth testing with children: Important factors to consider. American Psychological Association. https://www.apaservices.org/practice/legal/technology/telehealth-testing-children-covid-19

Nelson, B. W., Pettitt, A. K., Flannery, J., & Allen, N. B. (2020, April 13). Rapid Assessment of Psychological and Epidemiological Correlates of COVID-19 Concern, Financial Strain, and Health-Related Behavior Change in a Large Online Sample. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jftze

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Cerami, C., Santi, G., Galandra, C., Dodich, A., Cappa, S., Vecchi, T., & Crespi, C. (2020, April 10). COVID-19 OUTBREAK IN ITALY: ARE WE READY FOR THE PSYCHOSOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS? BASELINE FINDINGS FROM THE PSYCOVID STUDY. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z7yuv

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Runkle, J., Michael, K., Stevens, S., & Sugg, M. (2020, April 15). Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Text-based Crisis Patterns in Youth following Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas, 2018. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/auq5x

Droit-Volet, S., GIL, S., Martinelli, N., Andant, N., Clinchamps, M., Parreira, L., … Dutheil, F. (2020, May 1). PONE-D-20-12336. Time and Covid-19 stress in the lockdown situation: Time Free, Dying of Boredom and Sadness. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/efdq5

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Lengersdorff, L., Wagner, I., & Lamm, C. (2020, April 20). When implicit prosociality trumps selfishness: the neural valuation system underpins more optimal choices when learning to avoid harm to others than to oneself. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q6psx

Yang, Z., Ji, L. J., Yang, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, M., Xie, Y., … Cai, H. (2020, April 17). COVID-19 Outbreak Enhances Making Meaning in Negative Experiences: Evidence from China. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9twhb

Duffield, S. & O'Hare, D. Teacher resilience during coronavirus school closures. The British Psychological Society. Advice PDF. https://www.bps.org.uk/sites/www.bps.org.uk/files/Member%20Networks/Divisions/DECP/Teacher%20resilience%20during%20coronavirus%20school%20closures.pdf

Pearson, H., & Balas, B. (2020, May 5). Can naive observers detect suicidality in face images? A replication and extension of Kleiman and Rule (2013). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/prfm3

Martin, J. (2020, May 5). PSA001 (Martin, Wood, & Oh). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sbvkz

Uscinski, J. E., Enders, A. M., Klofstad, C., Seelig, M., Funchion, J., Everett, C., Wuchty, S., Premaratne, K., & Murthi, M. (2020). Why do people believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories? Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 1(COVID-19 and Misinformation). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-015

Sung, J., Dobias, M., & Schleider, J. L. (2020, April 29). Single-Session Interventions: Complementing and Extending Evidence-Based Practice. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z7bw2

Olthof, M., Hasselman, F., & Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A. (2020, May 1). Complexity In Psychological Self-Ratings: Implications for research and practice. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/fbta8

Orben, A. (2020, April 30). The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/dqmju

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Jamieson, R. K., & Pexman, P. M. (2020, April 20). Moving Beyond 20 Questions: We (Still) Need Stronger Psychological Theory. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000223

Frey, R. (2020, April 26). Psychological drivers of inter- and intraindividual differences in risk perception: A systematic case study on 5G. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7a3kg

Yildirim, M., & Arslan, G. (2020, April 28). Exploring the Associations Between Resilience, Dispositional Hope, Subjective Well-Being, and Psychological Health Among Adults During Early Stage of COVID-19. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/vpu5q

Wang, K., & Miller, J. K., PhD. (2020, April 17). Can reappraisal increase global psychological resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic?. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m4gpq

Van Tongeren, D. R., DeWall, C. N., Chen, Z., Sibley, C. G., & Bulbulia, J. (2020, April 24). Van Tongeren et al. (2020) JPSP - Religious Residue. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000288

Shook, N., Sevi, B., Lee, J., Fitzgerald, H. N., & Oosterhoff, B. (2020, April 16). Who’s Listening? Predictors of Concern about COVID-19 and Preventative Health Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c9rfg

Etilé, F., Johnston, D., Frijters, P., & Shields, M. (2020, April 16). Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vp48c

Ennis, E. G. (2020, April 16). A Novel Solution to Academic Publishing. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gqxmu

Hallford, D. J., & D'Argembeau, A. (2020, April 15). Why We Imagine Our Future: Introducing the Functions of Future Thinking Scale (FoFTS). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bez4u

Stefani, S., Ricci, E., Prati, G., TZANKOVA, I., Albanesi, C., & Cicognani, E. (2020, April 24). Gender Differences in Political Engagement and Participation among Italian Young People. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ps9ea

Rosenfeld, D. L., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2020, April 22). Can a Pandemic Make People More Socially Conservative? Longitudinal Evidence from COVID-19. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zg7s4

Cantarero, K., van Tilburg, W. A., & Smoktunowicz, E. (2020, April 16). Affirming Basic Psychological Needs Promotes Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pyhce

Rosen, Z., Weinberger-Litman, S. L., Rosenzweig, C., Rosmarin, D. H., Muennig, P., Carmody, E. R., … Litman, L. (2020, April 14). Anxiety and distress among the first community quarantined in the U.S due to COVID-19: Psychological implications for the unfolding crisis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7eq8c

DA SILVA, C. M. N. G. (2020, April 13). Who takes care of health professional?. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n4j98

Beitner, J., Brod, G., Gagl, B., Kraft, D., & Schultze, M. (2020, April 23). Offene Wissenschaft in der Zeit von Covid-19 – Eine Blaupause für die psychologische Forschung?. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sh8xg

Rosenfeld, D. L., Rothgerber, H., & Wilson, T. (2020, April 22). Politicizing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ideological Differences in Adherence to Social Distancing. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k23cv

Rosenfeld, D. L. (2020, April 22). Political Ideology and the Outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jrpfd

Lades, L., Laffan, K., Daly, M., & Delaney, L. (2020, April 22). Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pg6bw

Wolf, M. G. (2020, April 26). Survey Uses May Influence Survey Responses. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c4hd6

IJzerman, H., Lewis, N. A., Jr., Weinstein, N., DeBruine, L. M., Ritchie, S. J., Vazire, S., … Przybylski, A. K. (2020, April 27). Psychological Science is Not Yet a Crisis-Ready Discipline. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/whds4

Fried, E. I. (2020, April 24). Mental Health and Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/36xkp https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/36xkp

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