DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2020.v08i05.036

Pages: 1348-1360

The aim of this paper is to look at the deadliest impacts of the novel coronavirus on the human psychology. It would like to focus on the pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 in the vulnerable countries of the world. Human body and brain, prejudice, hoarding supplies, social isolation, quarantine, home quarantine, anxiety, fear and panic, healing, remote activity, cognitive bias, acute stress disorder, conversion disorder, adjustment disorder, hypochondriasis, sleep disorder, social distancing, and racial conflicts are the major aspects of psychology and social sciences, which have been investigated in this study in the light of the critical comments made by critics and scholars, including Lunstad, Miller, Faulkner, Light, Ermon, Preston, Haselton, Saha, Levitsoka, Allport, Auestad, Roy and so on. Through their criticism, the paper attempts to look at psychological trauma and mental disorders owning to the infection and affection of the novel coronavirus. Moreover, the statements and opinions regarding the pandemic outbreak of the coronavirus and its severe impacts on the global population made by World Health organization, World Trade Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and above all, American Psychiatric Association have been discussed in this research-work with a view to fostering the real picture of the fatal coronavirus.