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• fundamentally disrupted humans’ social life and behavior.
• As a response to the pandemic, a range of behavioral measures were implemented, which drastically impacted people’s everyday life and functioning. In an attempt to curtail COVID-19 transmissions, many governments around the world declared national lockdowns, enforced curfews and travel bans, temporarily closed schools, businesses, cultural and recr...
• The absence of social interactions along with emerging feelings of fear, insecurity, and stress (Luo et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2020) have limited the possibilities to assist others and may give rise to self-centered concern and disregard of others.
• antisocial were observed as a result of the pandemic and related measures. These included non-compliance with public health measures (e.g., mask-wearing), which increases risk of transmission, and issues such as overbuying and food stockpiling (Dholakia, 2020; Wang et al., 2020), and even a sharp rise of reports and acts of racism and xenophobia ag...
• this unique test of our social fabric simultaneously revealed prosocial responses,

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