The social psychology phenomenon’s in the time of COVID-19

The social psychology phenomenon’s in the time of COVID-19

The whole virus epidemic has been shown are several psycho social behaviors specially in USA where at first people do not believe that there is a serious threat of virus, they denied to wear masks and now they are denying to take vaccine they often believe there are huge conspiracy is happening around them and they try to analyses every situation with their blind obedience to political leaders.

Social psychology phenomenon’s in the time of COVID-19

Blind obedience, Mob behavior

Stanley Milgram’s thesis, based on evidence and experimental psychology's conceptual and theoretical models. Can be applied in the inexplicable rise of Donald Trump has essentially been a national Milgram experiment. Despite of his lacking of a solid grasp of strategy about the virus and hasn't come up with any specific proposals for how he will run the country. Regardless of the virus's origin and possible medical care and/or future vaccine generation method, and treatment were all part of a psychological process of blind obedience (eqivideos). One of the psychosocial fields where we think Covid-19 has had a substantial effect is on individual behavior patterns. Many people report feeling observed and/or criticized for wearing a mask in settings where the majority of the population does not. In these cases, it is not that the individual is inconsistent with his principles and lets himself be carried away by others, but rather that it is a universal behavior pattern in which there are a series of contextual factors that cause us to be drawn into it. Social uncertainty, for example, would be one of them: when the situation is ambiguous, complex, novel or without clear rules of action, the individual feels an excessive tendency to accept the majority behavior since their personal judgment is considered as little competent or even incompetent about it.

 

Propaganda and scapegoating

Propaganda is a form of communication that seeks to increase an individual's participation in the values of an established group to which they belong by matching new events to the philosophy of that group. The United States has been openly confiscating shipments of narcotics and supplies destined for other countries. Without pausing to consider the gravity of this crime against humanity, the ban on the selling of North American technology for ventilators, masks, and other products has seriously harmed the health response capability of others (Russell 140). While China initially attempted to conceal the true scope of the epidemic before taking drastic steps, such as the unprecedented closure of a city of eleven million people, which, coupled with the Confucian restraint of its citizens, enabled it to conquer the outbreak and become a model for many countries across the world. But it goes even further as it tightens economic sanctions against countries like Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela, amid repeated appeals from the international community to relax sanctions so that these countries can deal with the pandemic.

Deindividuation

N95 masks were highly common at that time. But the business corporation and customer behaved irresponsibility in that situation. This is especially important to the crowd-induced rule-breaking that has been seen with hoarding, as well as other activities like not keeping physically apart from one another, not staying at home, and not washing hands (Martinez). The deindividuation theory also explains why, despite the seriousness of what it means to be in the middle of a pandemic see even more people respond with anti-normative behaviors as the disease spreads across the world.

These behavioral and social sciences expertise can be used to better align human behavior since the epidemic necessitates large-scale behavioral change and puts a major psychological strain on people.

Works Cited

eqivideos. “Asch Conformity Experiment.” YouTube, 22 Dec. 2007, www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIh4MkcfJA.

Martinez, Antonia. “The Psychology of Complicity and Blind Obedience.” NYMHCA Metro, 10 Aug. 2020, www.nymhcametro.org/The-Psychology-of-Complicity-And-Blind-Obedience/.

Russell, Nestar John Charles. “Milgram’s Obedience to Authority Experiments: Origins and Early Evolution.” British Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 50, no. 1, Mar. 2011, pp. 140–162, 10.1348/014466610x492205. Accessed 19 Nov. 2018.