Sander L. Koole is Full Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Editor-in-Chief at Cognition & Emotion. His research examines how people manage their emotions. His latest work focuses on the use of AI to help people to manage their emotions more effectively.Klaus Rothermund is Full Professor and Chair of General Psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany. His main areas of interest are basic cognitive and affective processes and their relation to superordinate processes of emotion regulation, action control, and coping.

• Introduction - Coping with COVID-19: insights from cognition and emotion research 1. Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: the case of COVID-19 2. Pandemic reminders as psychological threat: thinking about COVID-19 lowers coping self-Efficacy among trauma-exposed adults 3. Emotion networks across self-reported depression levels during the COVID-19 pandemic 4. The impact of COVID-19 social isolation on aspects of emotional and social cognition 5. (Un)mask yourself! Effects of face masks on facial mimicry and emotion perception during the COVID-19 pandemic 6. Narrative coherence predicts emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a two-year longitudinal study 7. The effect of induced COVID-19-related fear on psychological distance and time perception 8. The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report 9. Emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: risk and resilience factors for parental burnout (IIPB) 10. Coronashaming: interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations 11. Reactance, morality, and disgust: the relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic 12. Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas

Sander L. Koole is Full Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Editor-in-Chief at Cognition & Emotion. His research examines how people manage their emotions. His latest work focuses on the use of AI to help people to manage their emotions more effectively.Klaus Rothermund is Full Professor and Chair of General Psychology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany. His main areas of interest are basic cognitive and affective processes and their relation to superordinate processes of emotion regulation, action control, and coping.

• Introduction - Coping with COVID-19: insights from cognition and emotion research 1. Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: the case of COVID-19 2. Pandemic reminders as psychological threat: thinking about COVID-19 lowers coping self-Efficacy among trauma-exposed adults 3. Emotion networks across self-reported depression levels during the COVID-19 pandemic 4. The impact of COVID-19 social isolation on aspects of emotional and social cognition 5. (Un)mask yourself! Effects of face masks on facial mimicry and emotion perception during the COVID-19 pandemic 6. Narrative coherence predicts emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a two-year longitudinal study 7. The effect of induced COVID-19-related fear on psychological distance and time perception 8. The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report 9. Emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic: risk and resilience factors for parental burnout (IIPB) 10. Coronashaming: interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations 11. Reactance, morality, and disgust: the relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic 12. Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas