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Read all our coverage of Donald Trump’s indictment.
Lara Aknin
Lara Aknin is a psychology professor at Simon Fraser University and the chair of the
Mental Health and Wellbeing Task Force
for
The Lancet’s
COVID-19 Commission.
The Atlantic
The Pandemic Did Not Affect Mental Health the Way You Think
The world’s psychological immune system turned out to be more robust than expected.
Lara Aknin
,
Jamil Zaki
, and
Elizabeth Dunn
July 4, 2021
