Coping with Covid: Insights from Cognition and Emotion Research

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 this volume show how research on cognition and emotion can illuminate the social and emotional strains of the pandemic while helping to identify risk factors that exacerbate these problems and pointing to ways to successfully address and mitigate these problems, such as emotion regulation, social support, and perspective taking.

This book is a valuable source for students and researchers in the fields of cognitive and affective sciences including social and clinical psychology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Cognition and Emotion.

Sander L. Koole is Full Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 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.