The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak was an enormous shock for governments, administrative agencies, businesses, and ordinary people. As well as the immediate threat to public health, the pandemic is producing substantial economic and social stresses, as societies introduce measures to restrict the spread of the virus. Even at this point in time, it is evident that the impact of the pandemic has and, no doubt will continue for some time to have multiple influences on human behavior and organization that will be challenging to comprehensively document, but which also create an extraordinary opportunity to gather scientific knowledge about many aspects of human psychology.
