The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying social restrictions have been associated with a range of emotional experiences, some of which are unusual, unsettling, disorienting, and puzzling. The aims of this special issue are as follows:
(1) To show how interdisciplinary phenomenological research can enhance our understanding of individual and collective emotional experiences during the pandemic, including experiences of anxiety, grief, shame, and distrust.
(2) To investigate how studying this unprecedented situation can further our understanding of human emotional experience.
Topics addressed by contributors include shame and shaming, anxiety, anger and indignation, grief and loss, loneliness, boredom, the effects of extreme isolation, how emotional experience is regulated and dysregulated by on-line environments, changes in the sense of time, and what it feels like to be in a crisis.
• Papers do not ordinarily exceed 10,000 words.
• All papers will undergo the journal’s standard review procedure (double-blind peer-review), according to the journal’s Peer Review Policy, Process and Guidance.
• Reviewers will be selected according to the Peer-Reviewer Selection policies.