Pandemic experience and locus of protection

This study sets out to investigate how an individual's pandemic experience at home impacts health risk perception of an international destination and a public venue. Moreover, it examines the psychological perspective of preventive measures (mask vs. vaccine) concerning the locus of protection (self- vs. other-oriented). The results suggest that people would inflate health risk to psychologically defend the self. This inflation can be reduced by vaccinationinformation of the locals or other customers more so than mask information. The locus of protection overpowers objective effectiveness and efficacy information in determining health risk perception for those were more seriously impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings imply that the travellers' and consumers' pandemic experience should be considered as an important predictor on travel and consumption decisions. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd

Time Perception and Time Management during COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown

Our perception of time changes with age, but it also depends on our emotional state and physical conditions. It is not necessarily mental disorders that distort human's time perception, but threatening or dangerous situations, induced fear or sadness trigger psychological defensive mechanism that speeds up or slows down the rate of the internal clock. Fear distorted time is caused by higher (slower) pulse rate, increased (decreased) blood pressure and muscular contraction. The given research is aimed at improving our understanding of the mechanism that controls this sense, opening the way for new forms of time management. Our perception of time is dependent on our emotional state, temporal distortion caused by emotion is not the result of a malfunction in the internal biological clock, but, on the contrary, an illustration of its remarkable ability to adapt to events around us. Development of time sensitivity is very important for timing, time perception, time-management and procrastination problem solution.