COVID‐19 has changed the world in profound ways. It has changed not just how we live, work, and travel, but also how we conduct research, and this has been particularly evident in the field of social psychology. This is because COVID‐19 has not only influenced our ability to do research, but the management (or mismanagement) of COVID‐19 has spoken to the importance of many classic topics in social psychology: compliance; leadership; equality; attitude change; and above all, social connectedness. As a result, COVID‐19 has provided social psychology researchers with a naturalistic context in which to test theories in real time, and often in novel and ground‐breaking ways.

Here, we will focus on four changes to our—social psychologists’—practices and research that we have observed in our field since the onset of the pandemic. Specifically, we will discuss how COVID‐19 has affected the focus of our research, the theorising we draw on to address research questions, the way we work with others to answer those questions, and the importance of engagement with policymakers and the public to disseminate our findings. We conclude with the observation that, despite the destruction and pain that COVID‐19 has caused, out of that horror, some silver linings have emerged: groundswells of community support, global scientific collaboration, and some shining examples of good leadership. For social psychologists too, this sudden and expedited awareness of the importance of understanding collective behaviour holds much promise when considering the future of our field.

COVID-19深刻地改变了世界。它不仅改变了我们的生活，工作和旅行方式，而且改变了我们进行研究的方式，这在社会心理学领域尤为明显。这是因为COVID-19不仅影响了我们的研究能力，而且COVID-19的管理（或管理不善）已经谈到了社会心理学中许多经典话题的重要性：合规性；领导; 平等; 态度改变；最重要的是社会联系。结果，COVID-19为社会心理学研究人员提供了一种自然主义的语境，可以在其中以新颖且开创性的方式实时检验理论。

自大流行开始以来，我们将重点关注社会心理学家的实践和研究的四个变化。具体来说，我们将讨论COVID-19如何影响我们的研究重点，我们用来解决研究问题的理论，与他人合作解决这些问题的方式以及与决策者和公众互动传播的重要性我们的发现。我们得出的结论是，尽管COVID-19造成了破坏和痛苦，但在那种恐怖之中，还是出现了一些一线希望：社区的支持，全球科学合作的蓬勃发展，以及一些出色的领导才能的典范。对于社会心理学家来说，