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COVID-19 is not just altering everyday life; it’s also upending psychological research. As universities and colleges across the country go virtual, researchers are scrambling to protect their human participants and animal subjects, their scholarship and their careers.
“The research that will be affected first are studies that involve bringing groups of people together in close proximity,” says Jeff Zacks, PhD, of Washington University in St. Louis, who chairs APA’s Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA). “But this is going to slow everybody down for 2020.”
To mitigate the impact, Zacks, his fellow BSA members and other experts offer the following advice.
