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COVID-19 Publications

Publications List

Cho, I., Cunningham, T.J., Daley, R.T., Kensinger, E.A. & Gutchess, A. (in press). Empathy, memory, and aging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology.

Cunningham TJ, Fields EC, & Kensinger EA (in press). Boston College daily sleep and well-being survey data during early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data. Data available at DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/GPXWA

Bottary, R., Fields, E. C., Kensinger, E. A., & Cunningham, T. J. (2022). Age and chronotype influenced sleep timing changes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of sleep research, 31(2), e13495. link

Bottary, R., Simonelli, G., Cunningham, T. J., Kensinger, E. A., & Mantua, J. (2020). Sleep extension: an explanation for increased pandemic dream recall?. Sleep, 43(11), zsaa131. link

Cho, I., Daley, R. T., Cunningham, T. J., Kensinger, E. A., & Gutchess, A. (2022). Aging, Empathy, and Prosocial Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 77(4), e57–e63. link

Cunningham TJ, Fields EC, Garcia S, & Kensinger EA (in press). The relation between age and experienced stress, worry, affect, and depression during the spring 2020 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Emotion.Advance online publication. link

Cunningham TJ, Bottary R, & Kensinger EA (2022). Society’s responses to the pandemic may have triggered one benefit: Reduced competition for sleep. Sleep Research Society Public Education Papers. link to PDF

Daley, R. T., Cunningham, T. J., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). Moral decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with age, negative affect, and negative memory. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 974933. Link

Fields, E. C., Kensinger, E. A., Garcia, S. M., Ford, J. H., & Cunningham, T. J. (2022). With age comes well-being: older age associated with lower stress, negative affect, and depression throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Aging & mental health, 26(10), 2071–2079. link

Ford JH, Garcia SM, Cunningham, TJ & Kensinger EA (2021). Older adults remember more positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology and Aging, 36(6), 694–699. link

Rodriguez-Seijas C, Fields EC, Bottary R, Kark SM, Goldstein MR, Kensinger EA, Payne JD, & Cunningham RJ (2020). Comparing the impact of COVID-19-related social distancing on mood and psychiatric indicators in sexual and gender minority (SGM) and non-SGM individuals. Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 590318. link