The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in a swift and dramatic global shift the location of work for many employees. Organizations around world have implemented remote arrangements to allow continuity service while conforming with social distancing requirements. As result ongoing uncertainty regarding current future pandemics, reduced costs associated housing employees remotely, surve...

Avoiding dangerous climate change is one of the most urgent social risk issues we face today and understanding related public perceptions is critical to engaging the public with the major societal transformations required to combat climate change. Analyses of public perceptions have indicated that climate change is perceived as distant on a number of different dimensions. However, to date there...

This article addresses the nature and challenge of adaptation in the context of global climate change. The complexity of "climate change" as threat, environmental stressor, risk domain, and impacting process with dramatic environmental and human consequences requires a synthesis of perspectives and models from diverse areas of psychology to adequately communicate and explain how a more psycholo...

Building on Battigalli and Dufwenberg (2009)’s framework of dynamic psychological games and the recent progress in the modeling of dynamic unawareness, we provide a general framework that allows for unawareness in the strategic interaction of players motivated by belief-dependent psychological preferences like reciprocity and guilt. We show that unawareness has a pervasive impact on the strateg...

Training robot operators is one approach to promoting better performance in teams working with robots. Yet, training does not always result in better performance. This study conducts a preliminary analysis of why by examining two psychological states of use: control and curiosity. An experimental study involving 30 teams two humans and two robots employing robots was conducted. Results showed t...

The rapid development and widespread application of Internet has provided a platform for people to participate and discuss social hotspot events. In the meantime, emergency events have attained more attention and have been spread more quickly than they did ever before by this way. However, the public opinion on Internet usually exerts a heavy impact on the development of emergency events as wel...