Monica K. Miller, JD, PhD, is a Foundation Professor with a split appointment between the Department of Criminal Justice and the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology PhD Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is also adjunct faculty for the Judicial Studies PhD Program and an affiliate of the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity. She is co-editor of the Springer series Advances in Psychology and Law, and is series editor for the American Psychology and Law Society book series published by APA Books.

Although the world has experienced many epidemics, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is exactly that--novel. The impacts on society's way of life, education, family, and economy are drastic. As a result, people seek explanations that have answers rooted in social science.
The Social Science of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action for Researchers draws on theories derived from the social sciences to address the multitude of questions raised by the pandemic and to inspire a future generation of researchers. This book focuses specifically on the social science of a pandemic. While medical, health, and other sciences are critical to understanding a pandemic, so, too, is understanding the role of society and person. Together, psychology and society shape every aspect of life, and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception to this pattern. Parts of society--and science--will be forever affected.
Edited by Monica K. Miller, The Social Science of the COVID-19 Pandemic is a collection of academic essays written by a group of international authors. The book begins by overviewing the timeline of the pandemic and how it affected life. It then discusses behaviors and experiences during the pandemic, followed by sections on outcomes after the pandemic and best practices for conducting future studies during or about the pandemic.
This book is an expansive, go-to text designed to help promote recovery from the pandemic, to minimize the negative effects of similar events in the future, and to inform social science research going forward.

Preface
Chapter 1: The Reciprocal Relationship Between Disease and Society: Historical and Modern Perspectives
Monica K. Miller, Bryce Van Vleet, Hugh Shapiro
Section One: Foundation of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter 2: How the Pandemic Changed People, Experiences, and the World
Angela Spires, Monica K. Miller
Chapter 3: U.S. Public Health Policy Responses to COVID-19
Susan G. Bornstein, Monica K. Miller

Chapter 4: The Ethics of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jennifer L. Lanterman
Chapter 5: Legal Actions and Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pamela M. Everett
Section Two: Pandemic-Related Behavior During the Pandemic
Chapter 6: Confirmatory Bias, Cognitive Dissonance, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Monica K. Miller, Jean J. Cabell
Chapter 7: Self-Enhancement and Counterproductive COVID-19 Behavior
Ethan Zell, Constantine Sedikides
Chapter 8: Reactance Theory, Freedom-Seeking, Protesting, and Other COVID-19 Behaviors
Jungkeun Kim, Jooyoung Park, Ricky Y.K. Chan, Roger Marshall
Chapter 9: Morality in Times of Crisis: Panic, Grandstanding, Disengagement and Outrage as Drivers of Pandemic-Related Behavior of Citizens
Biljana Gjoneska
Chapter 10: Temporal Discounting, Uncertainty, and COVID-19
Mattia Nese, Greta Riboli, Valentina Sassi, Gianni Brighetti, Rosita Borlimi
Chapter 11: An Objectification Theory Lens for Understanding Compliance With COVID-19 Safety Measures
Elvira Prusaczyk, Megan Earle, Becky Choma, Rachel Calogero
Chapter 12: Could Gender-Related Norms Predict Compliance With COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors? Negative Impacts of Masculine Social Norms
Mete Sefa Uysal, Emir Üzümçeker, Sara Vestergren
Chapter 13: Cooperation and Acting for the Greater Good During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Valerio Capraro, Paulo S. Boggio, Robert Böhm, Matjaz Perc, Hallgeir Sjåstad
Chapter 14: Crafting Effective Messages to Encourage COVID-19 Vaccination
Paul G. Devereux, Sarah Y.T. Hartzell, Molly M. Hagen
Chapter 15: Party Polarization and COVID-19
Jennifer Lin, James N. Druckman
Chapter 16: How Will Collective-Level Dynamics Influence the Spread of COVID-19?
Shinobu Kitayama
Chapter 17: The Role of Attitude Strength in Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joseph J. Siev, Mengran Xu, Andrew Luttrell, Richard E. Petty
Chapter 18: Trust in the Medical Profession: Reflections From the COVID-19 Pandemic
A. Christine Emler, Brian H. Bornstein
Chapter 19: Social Networks and COVID-19: Contagion and the Pandemic's Impact on Behavior
Clayton D. Peoples, Kayla Furlano
Section Three: Experiences During the Pandemic
Chapter 20: The Collective Trauma and Chronic Stress of COVID-19: Risk and Resilience
Dana Rose Garfin, Kayley D. Estes
Chapter 21: Collective Resilience and the COVID-19 Experience
Chris Cocking, Evangelos Ntontis, Sara Vestergren, Katarzyna Luzynska
Chapter 22: Staying Together While Apart: How Digital Media Both Helped and Harmed Our Sense of Connection During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Andrea Bayer, Sara V. White, Samuel E. Ehrenreich
Chapter 23: Xenophobia, Prejudice, Stigma, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Victoria Estrada-Reynolds, Cynthia Willis-Esqueda
Chapter 24: Inequality and the COVID-19 Experience
Cynthia Willis-Esqueda, Victoria Estrada-Reynolds
Chapter 25: Inequality in Healthcare: Theoretical Explanations for Disparities in the COVID-19 Experience
Emily R. Berthelot, Susan G. Bornstein
Chapter 26: How Will Couples Adapt to Stress from the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Relationship Science Perspective
Paula R. Pietromonaco, Nickola Overall
Chapter 27: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Trauma Trigger: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alma Jeftic, Toshiaki Sasao
Chapter 28: Nostalgia and Protection of Psychological Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides
Chapter 29: The Burden of Pandemic Life for Families With Young Children
Jennifer A. Mortensen, Lydia DeFlorio, Melissa M. Burnham
Chapter 30: Dreams in the Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Theoretical Perspectives on the Way the Pandemic Affects Dream Contents
Jarno Tuominen, Antti Revonsuo, Katja Valli
Chapter 31: Past Victimization and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michal Bilewicz, Maria Babinska
Section Four: Outcomes after the Pandemic
Chapter 32: Leadership and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yvonne Stedham, Steven Mueller
Chapter 33: Terror Management and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dylan E. Horner, Alex Sielaff, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg
Chapter 34: Harnessing Moral Cognition to Save Lives
Justin F. Landy, Alexander D. Perry
Chapter 35: A Failure of Fear: Liabilities of Looseness During COVID-19
Michele J. Gelfand, Xinyue Pan, Alex Landry
Chapter 36: Fake News and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sander van der Linden, Jon Roozenbeek
Chapter 37: Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Influence People's Moral Beliefs and Behavior? Insights From Parasite-Stress Theory and Moral Foundations Theory
Matthew P. West, Logan A. Yelderman
Chapter 38: Looking Back on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Hindsight and Outcome Bias
Hartmut Blank
Chapter 39: World-Systems Analysis and the COVID-19 Pandemic: How the Structural Dynamics of the Capitalist World-Economy Exacerbate Societal Vulnerability and Undermine Collective Responses to External Shocks
Michael Tyrala
Chapter 40: Can COVID-19 Help Save the World? The Consequence of the Pandemic for Changes in Climate Change Mitigation at the Institutional and Individual Levels
Adrian Wójcik, Marzena Cypryanska
Section Five: Conducting COVID-19 Pandemic Research
Chapter 41: Scattered Black and Whites: The Importance of the Positive and Negative in the Mosaic of Human Experience
Elaine Kinsella, Rachel Sumner
Chapter 42: On the Ethics of Social Science Research During a Pandemic
Philipp Schoenegger, Theron Pummer
Chapter 43: COVID-19 Related Community Sentiment Studies: Best Practices and Methodological Considerations
Evan Murphy, Breanna Boppre
Chapter 44: Strengthening Children and Youth Exposed to Multiple Community Stressors in Zagreb: Putting Science Into Practice
Gordana Buljan Flander, Igor Miklousic, Tea Brezinscak, Ella Selak Bagaric, Vjekoslav Jelec

Chapter 45: Researching Emotional Topics During Emotional Times: Reflecting on Best Practices for Management and Negotiation of Emotional Labor in Qualitative Social Research
Samantha Hughes, Sarah Lemon, Natasha Stonebridge, Sam Scott
Chapter 46: Selecting Personality and Individual Difference Theories to Predict COVID-19 Sentiment and Behaviors
Paul G. Devereux
Chapter 47: From Threats to Defenses: Theoretical and Statistical Suggestions to Investigate and Explain the Psychological Phenomena of COVID-19
Robin Willardt, Chiara A. Jutzi, Petra C. Schmid, Eva Jonas
Chapter 48: Moving Past the Pandemic: Lessons Learned From Social Science
Monica K. Miller