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COVID-19: Emotional and behavioural reactions to the unexpected
No matter who you are or where you are, there’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected your life, and how you live it.
Everyday decisions, from whether to stay home or not, to buy something or not, or to panic or not, may have suddenly become harder to make.
- Filia Garivaldis
- Monash University
In unprecedented circumstances such as these, and in the absence of previous experience, reliable expectations to guide behaviour are hard to come by.
Furthermore, the uncertain and unexpected evokes pronounced…
Even routine or innocuous events are now more demanding on our emotional, cognitive and…