Research Gap Found on the Psychology of Nuclear War Risk

Source: Association for Psychological ScienceAfter Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, public health researcher Abanoub Riad noticed that a spike of anxieties over nuclear war spread across much of eastern Europe. When Riad and his colleagues looked for studies on the topic, however, they found a significant gap in psychology research on nuclear war and mental health. Many studies were done in the 1980s, but hardly any were published in the past decade. Why is that?