Discuss your own thinking about how these differences may relate to differences in the experiences and environments of the individuals involved, and about how they may relate to differences in their traits, e.g., personality or other mental characteristics.

Write about your observations of the effects on individuals of the COVID-19 crisis, and their responses to them. These can be your own or those of others whom you know and have observed. You need not identify the individuals, the intent is to highlight your observations and your thinking about these issues. Focus in your essay on how you think your own, or others’, responses are related to who you/they are as individuals. If possible, describe ways that different individuals seem to be responding to similar facts or conditions. Discuss your own thinking about how these differences may relate to differences in the experiences and environments of the individuals involved, and about how they may relate to differences in their traits, e.g., personality or other mental characteristics. Try to relate the essay to the discipline of Cognitive Science.