Psychology of wearing face masks to prevent transition of COVID-19

Lynda Jiwen Song^#¹, Shu Xu^#², Sabina Lingxiao Xu¹, Zhuoer Sun³, Weizhi Liu^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Management Division, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK.
² Department of Biostatistics, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York City, New York, USA.
³ Lab for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Faculty of Psychology and Mental Health, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
⁴ The Emotion & Cognition Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Mental Health, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.

^# Contributed equally.

Editorial

Lynda Jiwen Song et al. Gen Psychiatr. 2020.

. 2020 Nov 5;33(6):e100297.

doi: 10.1136/gpsych-2020-100297. eCollection 2020.

Lynda Jiwen Song^#¹, Shu Xu^#², Sabina Lingxiao Xu¹, Zhuoer Sun³, Weizhi Liu^{3

4}

¹ Management Division, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, UK.
² Department of Biostatistics, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York City, New York, USA.
³ Lab for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Faculty of Psychology and Mental Health, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
⁴ The Emotion & Cognition Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Mental Health, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: public health administration.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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