How epidemic psychology works on Twitter: evolution of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

Abstract Disruptions resulting from an epidemic might often appear to amount to chaos but, in reality, can be understood in a systematic way through the lens of “epidemic psychology”. According to Philip Strong, the founder of the sociological study of epidemic infectious diseases, not only is an ep...

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Main Authors: Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia, Ke Zhou, Marios Constantinides, Sanja Šćepanović, Sagar Joglekar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2021-07-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00861-3