After first being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization [WHO], (2020) in March 2020, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread rapidly and in the process altered our very way of life. At the same time, it became increasingly clear that a wide range of new behavioral science research was necessary to understand fully how people comprehend and respond to such an unprecedented and long lasting health threat as COVID-19. One of the primary aims for this Special Issue was to gather and publish that research. The studies contained in this Special Issue, conducted between April 2020 and March 2021, were selected to represent experimental research that is relevant to this unique situation and that also inform and extend existing theory. These studies investigate three broad topics: Risk perception, decision-making under risk, and risk communication in the context of COVID-19. Collectively, they advance our knowledge of risk calibration, health communication interventions, and decisions about behaviors that address risk in the context of a global health threat. Perhaps most importantly they also make a practical contribution to how we approach these issues going forward. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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COVID-19 时期的风险认知、决策和风险沟通。

在 2020 年 3 月（2020 年）首次被世界卫生组织 [WHO] 宣布为大流行之后，冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 迅速传播，并在此过程中改变了我们的生活方式。与此同时，越来越清楚的是，需要进行广泛的新行为科学研究，以充分了解人们如何理解和应对像 COVID-19 这样前所未有且持久的健康威胁。本期特刊的主要目标之一是收集和发表该研究。本期特刊中包含的研究于 2020 年 4 月至 2021 年 3 月期间进行，被选为代表与这一独特情况相关的实验研究，同时也为现有理论提供信息和扩展。这些研究调查了三个广泛的主题：风险感知、风险下的决策、在 COVID-19 的背景下进行风险沟通。总的来说，它们提高了我们对风险校准、健康沟通干预以及在全球健康威胁背景下应对风险的行为决策方面的知识。也许最重要的是，它们还为我们今后如何处理这些问题做出了实际贡献。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。